This brings total orders for the C919, China first large commercial plane, to 380.
Since the world's only supersonic commercial plane made its first French maiden voyage on 2 March, 1969, celebrities have always been attracted to the cachet of Concorde.
Some top dogs travel the country in blinged-out RVs, comparable to a rock star's ride, though as Dean writes in "Show Dog, " Uno the beagle, upon winning Westminster, got his own seat on a commercial plane.
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Expert Aviation Consulting, an Indianapolis, Indiana, private consulting firm that includes commercial airline pilots on its staff, said the plane that landed in the Hudson was the same one as Flight 1549 from LaGuardia two days earlier.
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On 28 January, commercial flights were delayed by nearly three hours while a plane that had been left open overnight was searched by police and technicians.
And given that he lives a 90-minute drive from the nearest commercial airport in St Louis, he uses his own plane even if he is heading to regional meetings in Chicago, Denver or Atlanta.
The Iron Maiden frontman, 52, who holds a commercial pilot's licence, will captain the Astraeus Airlines plane from Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
All commercial flights were suspended at Guernsey Airport for nearly three hours after a plane was left open overnight.
He had a private plane available to him in Canada last week but decided to fly commercial back to the U.S., where authorities were waiting at LaGuardia Airport to arrest him.
Boeing reported its Q2 earnings fell 21% on sales declines in both its commercial and defense aircraft divisions, and that delivery of its 747-8 plane may be delayed into 2011.
He oversaw the plane's conception and early development as head of Boeing's commercial airplanes division before departing to become head of Ford Motor Co.
His visit to Egypt was a hastily arranged affair, bolted on to the start of a long-planned commercial tour of Gulf Arab allies and made in the company of a plane-load of British business chiefs, among them the representatives of eight defence and aerospace firms, prompting press headlines at home about Mr Cameron preaching peace in the company of arms-dealers.
In a commercial for Placeware , the privately held Web conferencing company, an agitated infant on a crowded plane suddenly upchucks in the face of a businessman who's sitting in an adjacent seat.
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The FAA -- the ultimate arbiter of when the plane can resume flying -- has declined to predict when the 787 will return to commercial service.
This general observation is particularly true of the aerospace plane, whose technologies will be of such vital importance to U.S. security and commercial interests for generations to come.
Southwest Airlines may not own a plane with a headrest infotainment system, but it's still far and away the most enjoyable commercial flight you'll find in the US of A (save for Virgin America, naturally).
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