To start, the new cabins are being introduced on the airline's Boeing 777 wide-body jets.
Emirates is expected to follow up the Airbus order with a purchase of Boeing 777 wide-bodies later on Monday, Reuters said.
Boeing (BA) said today Etihad Airways has ordered 10 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner airplaces, and two Boeing 777 Freighters.
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Since May, British Airways has experimented with offering iPads with pre-loaded content to first and business class passengers on its Boeing 777 aircraft, while they are awaiting installation of a newer built-in system.
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But if you want the full award-winning Etihad experience on a Boeing 777 (or Airbus), then the destination will have to be east, coming from the United States at least.
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Singapore Airlines said the orders will also help maintain its strategy of keeping a young and modern fleet, with the A350s ultimately replacing older Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 jets on medium- and long-haul routes.
Since the arrival of ultra-long-range airliners in the mid-1990s in the shape of the Boeing 777 (for which Emirates is the biggest customer), any two big cities on Earth can be linked via Dubai with no other stops.
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He later worked for Boeing, integrating new instrumentation into the manufacturer's then latest model - the 777.
Boeing also said on Monday it had won an order for 26 of its wide-body 777-300ER jets.
But Boeing tore up this deal in 2004 as Airbus prepared to launch the A380 super-jumbo (to challenge Boeing's 747) and the A350 (to vie with the 777 and 787).
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The power to make rapid, wholesale modifications in 3-D rested mostly with big architectural firms or companies the size of Boeing, which designed its entire 777 digitally using Dassault's Catia software.
The power to make rapid, wholesale modifications in 3-D rested mostly with big architecture firms or companies the size of Boeing, which designed its entire 777 digitally using Dassault's Catia software.
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