Boeing predicts: More planes, more crew jobs
August 6, 2016
Boeing updates its predictions for future needs for jetliners and the crews to fly and maintain them. For the first time, flight attendants make the list.
Boeing updates its predictions for future needs for jetliners and the crews to fly and maintain them. For the first time, flight attendants make the list.
With newer, more efficient planes crowding the market, demand for super-jumbos appears to be ending, and with it production of the A380 and 747.
For its birthday bash (100 years!) Boeing puts on a parade of all its commercial jets, from the 707 to the 787.
Virgin Atlantic shifts its mix of planes, going for a somewhat-less-jumbo big plane that will still hold over 400 passengers.
Britain’s (and one of the world’s) biggest shows of new planes, classic planes, future planes and every kind of aviation-related products is coming up next
Emirates, which operates by far the world’s largest fleet of A380s, has picked up two more that were originally ordered by a carrier who cancelledd.
India’s got one of the fastest growing airline industries in the world and Boeing and Airbus are hoping to take advantage of this growth.
Boeing designs self- cleaning bathroom
The first Boeing 727 has made its final flight, landing at Seattle’s Museum of Flight at Boeing Field
I’d been following the development and troubled roll-out of the Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” for more than a decade, but only recently had my first chance to fly this aircraft on a trip to India. One of the appealing things about the Dreamliner is that its size and fuel efficiency open new travel routes, partially bypassing the usual “hub-and-spoke” model. I was among the first to fly the newly established Toronto to Delhi route (nonstop), a more than 14 hour journey. That’s a long time to spend…
Boeing updates its predictions for future needs for jetliners and the crews to fly and maintain them. For the first time, flight attendants make the list.
With newer, more efficient planes crowding the market, demand for super-jumbos appears to be ending, and with it production of the A380 and 747.
For its birthday bash (100 years!) Boeing puts on a parade of all its commercial jets, from the 707 to the 787.
Virgin Atlantic shifts its mix of planes, going for a somewhat-less-jumbo big plane that will still hold over 400 passengers.
Britain’s (and one of the world’s) biggest shows of new planes, classic planes, future planes and every kind of aviation-related
Emirates, which operates by far the world’s largest fleet of A380s, has picked up two more that were originally ordered by a carrier who cancelledd.
India’s got one of the fastest growing airline industries in the world and Boeing and Airbus are hoping to take advantage of this growth.
The first Boeing 727 has made its final flight, landing at Seattle’s Museum of Flight at Boeing Field
I’d been following the development and troubled roll-out of the Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” for more than a decade, but only recently had my first chance to fly this aircraft on a trip to India. One of the appealing things about the Dreamliner is that its size and fuel efficiency open new travel routes, partially bypassing the usual “hub-and-spoke” model. I was among the first to fly the newly established Toronto to Delhi route (nonstop), a more than 14 hour journey. That’s a long time to spend…