FLEET - Cathay Pacific expects its first two B777-9 in 2025, with the remaining 19 to follow from 2026 and beyond

Four A321neos are due in 2024, with 15 more due in 2026 and beyond, with the final number subject to reallocation between Cathay and HK Express. In 2024, three B777-300ERs will be returned, followed by two A330-300s and two B777-300ERs in 2025, and two A330-300s and four B777-300ERs in 2026.

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Emirates to swap 777X orders for more 787 Dreamliners?

 

The Boeing 777X seemingly cannot catch a break, as one of its biggest customers, Emirates, is looking to swap orders for the wide-body for its smaller cousin, the 787 Dreamliner.

As Boeing announced its 2020 financial results on January 27, 2021, besides a massive $11.9 billion net loss, the company also reduced its firm backlog on the 777X from 350 to 191. This was done due to the ASC 606 accounting standard, which forced the manufacturer to downsize its backlog. Greg Smith, the Chief Financial Officer of Boeing, clarified during the financial results analyst call that the downsized backlog was also the result of the recent delay to the aircraft program. The 777X, which was first set to enter service in 2020, will now fly commercially in late-2023.

Boeing, Singapore Airlines Announce Order for 39 Airplanes

Deal includes 20 777-9s and 19 787-10 Dreamliners

Ceremony in the presence of President Trump and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Singapore Airlines (SIA) today formally announced a deal for 20 777-9s and 19 787-10s, during a ceremony at the White House.

The order, previously attributed to an unidentified customer, is worth $13.8 billion at current list prices. The value of this sales transaction will sustain thousands of U.S. suppliers and more than 70,000 direct and indirect U.S. jobs during the delivery period of this contract. The airline also has options for 12 additional aircraft, six of each aircraft type.

The signing ceremony, witnessed by US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong, included Singapore Airlines' CEO Goh Choon Phong and Boeing Commercial Airplanes' President & CEO Kevin McAllister. Peter Seah, Singapore Airlines' Chairman, and Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president, Asia Pacific & India Sales, Boeing Commercial Airplanes and other members of the airline and Boeing also were in attendance.

"SIA has been a Boeing customer for many decades and we are pleased to have finalised this major order for widebody aircraft, which will enable us to continue operating a modern and fuel-efficient fleet," said Goh. "These new aircraft will also provide the SIA Group with new growth opportunities, allowing us to expand our network and offer even more travel options for our customers."

Singapore Airlines has more than 50 777s in service and is the launch customer of the 787-10, which is set to deliver in the first half of 2018. With a prior order for 30 787-10s, the airline now has 49 on order, making it the largest customer for this type. A long-range airplane that's efficient at any stage length, the 787-10 will serve the airline's medium-range operations while partnering with the 777-9 for the carrier's long-haul routes. Its subsidiaries SilkAir, Scoot and SIA Cargo also operate Boeing airplanes with the 737 MAX 8 and 737-800, 787-8 and 787-9 Dreamliners and 747-400 Freighter types in service, respectively.

"Boeing and Singapore Airlines have been strong partners since the airline's first operations 70 years ago and we are thrilled to finalise their purchase of 20 777Xs and 19 additional 787-10 Dreamliners," said McAllister. "Singapore Airlines' order is a testament to the market-leading capabilities of Boeing's widebody airplanes and we look forward to delivering the very first 787-10 to them next year."

With more than 1,280 orders from 70 customers worldwide, the 787 Dreamliner family offers three modern and efficient airplanes that are optimized for markets ranging from 200 seats to over 350 seats. To date, more than 600 787s have entered commercial service. They have flown nearly 200 million people on more than 560 unique routes - including 156 new nonstop routes – while saving an estimated 19 billion pounds of fuel.

The 787-10, the largest family member, adds seats and cargo capacity while offering 25 percent better fuel efficiency per seat and lower emissions than the airplanes it will replace. The combination of capability, reliability and efficiency has attracted carriers from around the world, including Asia where the 787-10 will be able to connect all points within Asia at lower seat costs than any other twin-aisle airplane, with the flexibility to also link to Europe, Africa and Oceania.



The 777X, builds on the passenger-preferred and market-leading 777, and will be the largest and most-efficient twin-engine jet in the world, with the latest innovative technologies, including the most advanced, fuel-efficient commercial engine ever. Opening new growth opportunities for airlines, the 777-9 will have the lowest operating cost per seat of any commercial airplane. The 777-9 seats 400-425 passengers with a range of 7,600 nautical miles (14,075 km) and is the only twin-engine available of its size.

Emirates now the B777X launch operator

Emirates (EK, Dubai Int'l) is set to become the B777-9's launch operator having assumed the role from Lufthansa, the Gulf News has reported quoting a Boeing (BOE, Chicago O'Hare) executive.

“Emirates is now actually ahead of its original mid-2020 schedule to receive its first 777X aircraft,” Marty Bentrott, Boeing’s Vice-President (Sales - Middle East, Turkey, Russia, and Central Asia) said, adding that the programme is tracking ahead of schedule.

First announced as a commitment at the 2013 Dubai Airshow, Emirates' B777X order was subsequently firmed in 2014. Of the 150 jets, 115 are B777-9s and thirty-five are B777-8s. The Dubai-based carrier holds options for a further fifty aircraft of the type.

The B777-9 is expected to make its commercial debut in 2020. Together with the B777-8, the aircraft will be used to replace Emirates' existing B777 fleet which currently entails 136 B777-300(ER)s and ten B777-200(LR)s.

Boeing Statement on ANA Widebody Airplane Selection

SEATTLE, Mar. 27, 2014 – Boeing [NYSE:BA] is pleased that ANA today announced the selection of 40 Boeing widebody airplanes for its strategic fleet renewal, including 20 777-9X, 14 787-9 and 6 777-300ER (extended range) airplanes. The agreement with the Japanese airline is valued at approximately $13 billion at list prices.

“ANA and Boeing share a long and successful partnership that spans more than five decades," said Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner. “ANA helped launched the 787 Dreamliner with Boeing, and we are honored to once again have ANA as an early customer of the 777X family of airplanes. We are very proud that they operate an all-Boeing widebody fleet.”

 Boeing looks forward to working with ANA on finalizing the agreement at which time the order will be posted to the Boeing Orders & Deliveries website.