Boeing 737-900 Up close and personal

Blue Punto

http://www.newairplane.com/737/explained/#/Explore

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lifehacker

fantastic link man... next best thing to being up close

lord lucan

And in related news,AA have set out a massive order to replace their narrow body fleet. Airbus are the big winners with a smaller take up from Boeing,though even this doesn't seem very firm.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cd0c2dac-b2d0-11e0-bc28-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Sf4EEcfP

castie

lord lucan wrote: »

And in related news,AA have set out a massive order to replace their narrow body fleet. Airbus are the big winners with a smaller take up from Boeing,though even this doesn't seem very firm.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cd0c2dac-b2d0-11e0-bc28-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Sf4EEcfP

Registered users only it seems.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cd0c2dac-b2d0-11e0-bc28-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Sikqftha

works for me

Mister Jingles

castie wrote: »

Registered users only it seems.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cd0c2dac-b2d0-11e0-bc28-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Sikqftha

works for me

Nope, still need to be registered.

Plowman

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castie

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Nope, still need to be registered.

Okay thats weird.

I googled the topic and got that link.
They must be allowing redirects from google for free.

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Boeing has succumbed to pressure from some of its largest customers by opting to re-engine its best-selling 737 rather than design a new aircraft.

In an unusual move, the US aircraft maker announced the strategic shift on Wednesday as part of a record-breaking order by American Airlines. Boeing has come under increasing pressure from airlines around the world to speed up its decision on how to respond to Airbus, which announced at the end of last year that it was re-engining the rival A320 narrowbody jet to secure a 15 per cent cut in fuel burn.

As oil prices jump sharply this year, airlines have flocked to order the so-called A320Neo with Airbus securing more than 1,000 orders for the Neo, including 667 orders at last month’s Paris Air Show. The aircraft is due to enter service in October 2015.

The success of the A320Neo was underlined by the order from American to renew its narrowbody fleet – one of the largest in the world – with a mix of Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The 460-aircraft order, worth $40bn at list prices, will replace most of American’s ageing narrowbody fleet.

The deal marks the first time Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS, has broken into American’s all-Boeing narrowbody fleet. Shares of EADS jumped 4 per cent to €24.79 in Paris, a rise of more than 40 per cent since the start of the year.

The US’s third-largest airline by revenues will buy 260 A320 family jets, including 130 Neos. It will also take 200 737 family jets from Boeing, including 100 of the new variant of the jet with more fuel-efficient engines. Deliveries will start in 2013 and run through to 2022.

Jim Albaugh, head of Boeing’s commercial aircraft business, said an internal analysis had shown re-engining was a better option and conceded airlines had put pressure on the company to act.

“While the technology was there to do a new small airplane, the production processes weren’t well understood,” he said. He said the upgraded 737 still needed board approval but expected to get that in the next few months.

Analysts had warned that if Boeing had gone with an all-new aircraft, which would not have been ready until the end of the decade, the US aerospace group risked ceding the narrowbody market – the largest part of the commercial aircraft market – to Airbus and a number of new entrants led by Canada’s Bombardier and China’s Comac.

Boeing’s shares rose 2.18 per cent to $72.07 in New York.

Jason Adams, an aerospace analyst at Nomura, said: “The Paris Air Show was a massive wake-up call for Boeing. . .  the market has forced their hand. It’s a very reactive move on the part of Boeing and shows the level of market disruption that Airbus has managed to create with the Neo.”

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