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by **JonARNZ** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:13 pm

Virgin Atlantic has ordered 15 Boeing 787-9 aircraft, placed options on another eight and has secured purchase rights for 20 more. :thumbup:

Deliveries of the aircraft are expected to take place from 2011 and will replace Virgin's Airbus A340-300s.

Full story HERE

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by **ZK-KAG** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:37 pm

Thats great news!!!

by **JonARNZ** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:24 pm

And I see on the 25th Air Canada ordered another 25, crikey, this aircraft could get to 600 orders before it even flies ^_^

by **scon** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:56 pm

I am a Boeing man but lets hope this doesn't end up like the Comet did

(great on paper rubbish in the air)

by **FlyingKiwi** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:05 pm

scon wrote: I am a Boeing man but lets hope this doesn't end up like the Comet did

(great on paper rubbish in the air)

We've got 50-odd years of designing and building high speed pressurised jet turbine aircraft to build on now; the people who built the Comet were essentially pioneering a new technology, so their job was harder in that respect.

by **ZÃƒÂ¶ltuger** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:33 pm

big coup for Boeing given Virgin's European ties

by **JonARNZ** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:53 pm

ZÃƒÂ¶ltuger wrote: big coup for Boeing given Virgin's European ties

Indeed, I think the A380 issues, along with the A350 fiasco initially may have made a bigger dent in confidence in irbus than first thought.

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