Boeing 787 Dreamliner Launched Today

[Warren Dew]

Now, THAT'S economic stimulus, and is what the US needs to get out of this economic mess. Heavy industry and high tech.

Pity the NLRB is prohibiting Boeing from opening their second assembly line and hiring more workers.

I don't know what he's going on about anyway. Boeing itself shows that they have -26 orders for the 787.. that means 26 cancelled orders and no pending ones.

According to the Associated Press, the number is 800. " Airlines have ordered more than 800 of the planes that will compete with the Airbus A350." http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... TE=DEFAULT

800 have been ordere thus far, but none this year, and there have been cancellations this year. Most of the orders happened years ago.

It will take Boeing about a decade to make all the planes that have already been ordered. Given the airlines aren't going to get newly ordered planes for 10 years, they're in no rush to place the orders.

[Coito ergo sum]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/dr ... 27660.html

[Jesus_of_Nazareth]

I am guessing the 800 includes options / provisional orders - allows airlines (and leasing companies) to get into the Q, but not be committed to buy.

Am sure Boeing and Airbus are very comfortable (from past experiance) that in practice they do convert enough of the provisional orders into actual sales - even if not all to the original orderers or within the expected timeframe.

[Coito ergo sum]

Five of these things were delivered to Nippon Airlines. Anyone fly on one yet? I hear they are quite nice.

United ordered about 50 of these things. I wonder when they will be delivered?