Aviation Ping!....................
I wonder how many will fly into skyscrapers?
At least “Build Back Better” is working over there.
I was in sales operations for a long time and spent a lot of time on sales compensation plans. The biggest orders we got were in the $10 million rang.
I wonder how Boeing compensates the sales team for an order of this magnitude. The people on the team may not need to work again.
Hmmm . . . makes me wonder if they are going to dump the A380’s?
Emirates has the best food and best stewardesses who are well trained in how to make passengers feel happy.
Deep State insiders will make yuge $ on this deal.
Just keep voting. Pretend it matters.
Sounds like some countries are electing not to abort their future generation(s)...
Why did Emirates order 95 777-9’s? Reason: Airbus didn’t give a decent offer on updating the A380 fleet with new wings and engines. As such, Emirates will switch to flying the 777-9 on their most important routes and move their more cost-conscious customers to flydubai, which will start flying the 787-9 from Dubai the various US East Coast destinations.
That 777-9 plane has very narrow aisles and very narrow seats, and me and my wife had a very terrible time flying for 3 hrs between Dallas and Tampa. It was a chore navigating the narrow aisles and both my wife and I are thin. The seats were very uncomfortable with absolutely no elbow room and no clearance between our seats and those in front of us. Never again on a 777-9 or any other 777. Horrible!
Whenever someone makes a purchase of many, many airplanes, I immediately remember Rush talking about the fact that those planes all run on hydrocarbons. The fact that they plan to use hundreds of planes far into the future is one more example that those in the know already have the information that we will not run out of hydrocarbons for hundreds of years. I do not believe we will ever run out. We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. Every other month is another article of some country ‘finding’ another massive oil & gas deposit. Free flow of energy at market prices fuels freedom, which is why the democRATS cannot stand inexpensive, abundant energy, and do everything they can to limit our access.
Kinda expensive aircraft. 95 for $52 billion.
Airbus planes just seem smoother to me. Smoother in the air, smoother when we land......just seems that way.
I’d rather push an Emirates 777 than fly on any other airliner.
I remember when Boeing got an order for 1000 B-29s before they had ever assembled the first one...
It put 100,000 draft-ineligibles to work and wiped out a lot of test pilots getting the job done...
The B-29 was one of the greatest technological industrial leaps in history...
One of the key driving forces behind its development (so we could bomb those slant-eyed jap bastards directly) was the correlated decision to develop and deploy an atomic bomb...
Think the B-29 cost us double what the a-bomb development cost...
The B-29 was the bridegroom and the a-bomb(s) was the bride...
A marriage that saved millions of lives...
They (B-29s) were almost on their way to being judged a strategic failure until the Army finally put an ass-kicking MAGA-type American in charge...