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Can Boeing win Farnborough?
23 July 2004
Boeing is hoping for 500 7E7 orders before the first flight. The team behind the aircraft explain how they will achieve this.
Can Boeing win Farnborough?
Boeing has announced that it is confident that it will book 500 7E7 orders before the first flight of the 7E7 in 2007. But is Boeing dreaming? Victoria Pennington spoke to the team behind the new aircraft.
Airbus may have dominated the news at Paris last year but this year Boeing is keen to steal the limelight at Farnborough with the 7E7 ? and it is off to a good start.
Boeing has already booked its largest ever launch order with ANA and signed up Air New Zealand, Blue Panorama and First Choice and Mike Bair, senior vice president, 7E7 programme, Boeing Commercial Airplanes is confident that there are more to come. "We are now in discussions with more than 30 airlines for orders of over 600 airplanes," he says. "This demand, we feel, is half due to our attention to the right product and half down...
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