FedEx has added 19 767-300 Freighters to Boeing’s order book, a $3.3 billion move to replace the some of the company’s aging aircraft.
Airbus would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build their first manufacturing facility in the United States.
Jim Albaugh, President and CEO of Boeing’s Commercial Airplanes unit, announced his retirement on Tuesday. Longtime Boeing exec Ray Conner will replace him effective immediately.
United Airlines will take delivery of its first Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in September according to an internal memo, ending months of speculation.
ANA will receive four additional copies of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner after adjusting their 55 plane order, the Tokyo-based airline announced Tuesday.
Two months after a tornado shuttered a Kansas factory that builds many critical Boeing aircraft components, some of the airframer’s top brass visited Spirit AeroSystems to pay thanks to the men and women who quickly got the factory back up and running.
![As the Boeing [NYSE: BA] 787 Dreamliner touched down at Tashkent International Airport as part of the Dream Tour, the airplane received a rousing welcome with a traditional dance by a troupe of Uzbek performers.](http://www.nycaviation.com/newspage/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/787-tashkent-200x200.jpg)
Boeing’s 787 Dream Tour was greeted by men with large horns as it landed in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, this past week.
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UPS on Tuesday took delivery of its 50th Boeing 767-300 Freighter, further expanding what was already the world’s largest fleet of 767 cargo haulers.
Delta Air Lines announced on Tuesday that it had reached a deal with Southwest Airlines to take delivery of all 88 Boeing 717 aircraft in the AirTran fleet should Delta’s pilots ratify a new collective bargaining agreement.
