Posted on 10/04/2001 10:07:49 PM PDT by green team 1999
China orders 30 Boeing 737 aircraft
3 October 2001
China Aviation Supplies Import & Export Corp. (CASC) has signed an agreement for the firm order of 30 Boeing 737 aircraft.
The order is worth approximately $1.6 billion at list prices. The airplanes will be delivered between 2002 and 2005 and are allocated to the following airlines:
China Southern Airlines: 20 737-800s
China Eastern Airlines: Four 737-700s
Hainan Airlines: Three 737-800s
Shanghai Airlines: Two 737-800s and one 737-700
"Today's announcement reflects an expansion in bilateral trade between China and the United States and it underscores the strength of Sino-US relations,'' Vice Chairman of the State Development Planning Commission Zhang Guobao said. "China is modernising its commercial fleet to improve airline efficiency and profitability. Our near-term focus is fleet renewal. The airplanes in today's announcement will replace older aircraft in the China fleet.''
CASC is a trading company that conducts the import and export business of civil aviation products for the Chinese government under the auspices of the CAAC, the state council ministry responsible for national civil aviation affairs.
The 737s are powered by CFM56-7 engines produced by CFMI, a joint venture of General Electric Co. of the United States and Snecma of France.
In 1983, the first Boeing 737 was delivered to the PRC, and today there are 197 operating throughout mainland China. A total of 357 Boeing jetliners operate in China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau), comprising 64 percent of the Chinese commercial jet fleet.
Boeing forecasts that in the next 20 years, China will require 1,764 new aircraft valued at $144 billion, making it the second largest market for aircraft after the United States. It is also projected that China's air traffic growth will average 9.3 percent annually during the same time period.
Today's order brings the total Boeing aircraft orders from China in 2001 to 40, including six 737-700s for Air China, two 747-400 freighters for China Southern Airlines and two 757-200s for Xiamen Airlines, all of which were previously attributed by Boeing to unidentified customers.
for information and discusion only,not for profit etc,etc.
And 1 YF22A.
and on a quite Summer evening of 2006, at the predetermined second of the predetermined hour
21 beautiful American-made Boeing 737 aircraft divert from their flight plan.
Following signals on American-made GPS units, make a bee-line at high speed to their designated areas.
Cruising at about 660 MPH, most planes make their targets in mere minutes.
Within 10 minutes, 21 American-designed large megaton nuclear bombs detonate flawlessly.
Some over the US continent, others over Pacific fleets.
Within months strategic ports and cities are held.
China's newest annexation begins.
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