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Boeing 777X delayed

The Boeing 777X aircraft deliveries are likely to be delayed until early 2025, a person close to the matter has told Reuters.

Boeing had earlier said that it expected the 777X certification in the final quarter of 2023, with the first delivery before the end of that year.

Emirates, the largest customer of the 777X, has repeatedly criticised Boeing over delays to the 777X. Initially, Emirates was due to receive its first 777X in June 2020.

Boeing 777X, the new generation of the 777 family, was launched in 2013, accumulating about 300 orders during the years that followed. However, after numerous problems and delays, the first prototype conducted its first flight in January 2020.

The 777X family, comprising the 777-8, 777-9, and 777-10 variants, is intended to replace earlier models of the 777, as well as compete with Airbus widebodies, such as the A350 aircraft.  

The smallest version of the 777X family, the 777-8, accommodates up to 384 passengers in a typical two-class configuration range of 8,730nm which in theory would put it within non-stop range of Sydney from London.  

The Boeing 777-9 variant has the capacity to carry up to 426 passengers. It also boasts a range of 7,285nm, according to Boeing data.  

The 777-10 proposal is enormous with a potential of up to 615 passengers.

Etihad, Lufthansa and Qantas ordered the 777X at the back end of 2013 and just before the pandemic British Airways confirmed 18.  What happens next remains to the seen.  The original 777 first flew in 1994 with 1,680 delivered.

www.boeing.com/commercial/777x

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Richard Stokes, United Kingdom

The distance between London and Sydney is 10,570 miles, not 8,730


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