Article from BTNews 8 JULY 2013
787 delivery rush
As noted elsewhere in Business Travel News (()) British Airways has now joined a rush of airlines taking delivery of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
Within the last week or so Norwegian celebrated the introduction of their first aircraft (with a little help from Virgin Atlantic and via leasing company ILFC). China Southern's first aircraft also arrived.
In total, as of Sunday 7 July, 68 aircraft had been despatched from Seattle, and with the spat of orders from a variety of carriers the total has been pushed up towards the magic 1,000, with 930 firm commitments from 58 customers.
Deliveries to date.
|
Air India |
7 |
out of 27 |
|
All Nippon Airways |
20 |
66 |
|
British Airway |
2 |
24 |
|
China Southern |
2 |
10 |
|
Ethiopian Airlines |
4 |
10 |
|
Hainan Airlines |
1 |
10 |
|
Japan Airlines |
9 |
45 |
|
LAN |
3 |
26 |
|
LOT Polish Airlines |
4 |
8 |
|
Norwegian |
1 |
8 |
|
Qatar Airways |
6 |
30 |
|
Thomson Airways |
3 |
13 |
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