"Clearly, I haven't been at Boeing for six years now, but I will assure you that the 787 is going to change the flying experience again, just like every other Boeing airplane, " he said at the Detroit auto show.
Randy Baseler, vice-president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, says the delay is due to technical considerations.
By Christmas, the situation had not much changed: Ron Woodard, the boss of Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, said cancellations by stricken Asian airlines would be a welcome relief to his overloaded factories though he did not in fact expect any.
According to airplane maker Boeing, even onboard explosions have not caused planes to crash.
Airplane manufacturer Boeing will also reduce its workforce by 20, 000 to 30, 000 workers nationwide by the end of 2002.
Who, then, would want to be in the very large shoes of Ron Woodard, the man who runs Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group?
Ray Conner, president and chief executive officer of Boeing's commercial airplane unit, said in a statement that the company's focus has been on developing a permanent resolution.
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Louisans have grown used to seeing jobs disappear by the planeload in the past decade--20, 000 of them from McDonnell Douglas alone, the airplane company Boeing bought in 1997.
Washington (CNN) -- Airplane manufacturer Boeing builds some of the most complicated machines on Earth, but in its efforts to make wireless signals on airplanes better it turned to the produce aisle for help.
His campaign on Monday unveiled his new campaign airplane, a Boeing 737-400.
"We're always working to ensure that our products offer the airlines of the world the most modern and robust technologies available to provide their passengers with an exceptional flying experience, " said Mike Sinnett, senior chief engineer of Airplane Systems for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
That measure is about the same as Boeing's last major new commercial airplane, the 777, which was launched in 1995.
Shares in Boeing dropped Wednesday morning after the commercial airplane and jetline builder reported a slip in its fourth quarter profit due to lower than expected commercial airline deliveries.
The airplane is a specially configured narrow body Boeing 757 ( click here for seat map) with a large business class section.
Last year Boeing bought Insitu, a maker of a small unmanned airplane called ScanEagle.
Commercial airplane chief Ray Conner was dispatched to represent Boeing at a Jan. 11 news conference with senior U.S. government officials, and Mr. McNerney has assigned Mr. Conner and other executives to handle much of the contact with airlines, according to a person familiar with the customer conversations.
The airplane landed four hours and 25 minutes later at Boeing Field in Seattle.
Airlines have been excited by the Boeing 787 as the first mid-size, long-range airplane, which would allow airlines to open up routes where they don't have enough demand from passengers to justify a larger plane like a Boeing 747 or an Airbus A380.
He said Boeing has been asked to take part in the examination of images of the airplane part by the National Transportation Safety Board, which is providing assistance to New York authorities overseeing the probe.
Josafa Candido, a 30-year Vasp veteran appointed caretaker of its Congonhas ghost town, said he was sad to see a giant airplane shredding machine ordered up by Mr. Melek reducing three Vasp Boeing 737s there to piles of scrap.
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No one was particularly surprised when Boeing recently announced it was cutting up to 7, 000 jobs at its military airplane factory in St.
Downplaying the events might be standard PR practice and they may well be minor bumps in the ongoing shakedown of the new plane but I think Boeing needs to reevaluate its strategy in light of the fact that it has an airplane problem .
The airline is a major player in the Indonesian market and also gave Boeing its largest-ever order when it finalized a deal last year for 230 planes from the Chicago airplane manufacturer.
The improved battery systems rely on a new steel enclosure system, Boeing said in a statement on Friday, designed to keep any level of battery overheating from affecting the airplane or even being noticed by passengers.
"There are issues we have seen that we will need to work through and just like any new airplane program we work through those issues and we move on, " said Mike Sinnett, Boeing vice president and chief project engineer for the 787, during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday.
Boeing has hauled in around 20, 000 pounds of potatoes to use as human substitutes during its tests with airplane WiFi.
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The airplane is painted in a new Sunrise livery of red-orange and is a significant departure from Boeing's standard blue.
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