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    Volga-Dnepr buys five Boeing 747-8Fs

    Volga-Dnepr Group and Boeing have signed a contract for the delivery of five new long-range Boeing 747-8F freighters, with an option for another five.

    The first Boeing 747-8F is scheduled to join AirBridgeCargo Airlines in February 2010; the next four are due for delivery between 2011 and 2013.

    The order is valued at $1.4 billion at list prices

    Volga-Dnepr has also secured an option to buy another five Boeing 747-8Fs.

    Boeing aircraft now account for around 90% of the global freighter fleet, with more than half of all existing international cargo capacities represented by Boeing 747 aircraft.

    With this order, Volga-Dnepr becomes the seventh customer announced for the new 747-8 Freighter, joining Atlas Air, Cargolux, Emirates, Guggenheim Aviation Partners, Nippon Cargo Airlines and Korean Air.



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    Wow. That will be REALLY weird to see their scheme on an American aircraft.
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    More great news for the 747-8 project! Cargo is such a gold mine and Boeing really has captured the market! The Queen of the Sky lives on!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil D.
    Wow. That will be REALLY weird to see their scheme on an American aircraft.
    Images from Boeing show the 747-8F in Air Bridge colors http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/200 ... 51103g.jpg so it should look like their other 747s: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0561741/L/
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    Wow, that's a cool livery.
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    CHEERS to the 788
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