A lot of people had pinned this latest fleet expansion order onto Airbus, expecting A340 and A380 orders.
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The Boeing passenger plane order comprises 10 777-300ERs, four 737-900ERs and a 737-700. The airline also ordered five 747- 8 freighters and five 777-200 freighters. The carrier has also agreed on options for eight more planes, comprising four 777- 300ERs, two 737-900ERS and two 747-8Fs, it said.
Korean Air plans to increase its fleet to 137 planes by 2010 from the current 118, it said in August. The airline’s fleet comprises 99 passenger planes and 19 747-400 freighters, as of the end of September, it said on its Web site. Three-quarters of its fleet are Boeing aircraft.
By: Bmused55 - 21st November 2006 at 12:33
UFO = Unidentified Firm Order
By: bring_it_on - 21st November 2006 at 11:39
could somebody tell me what UFO stands for?
Usually it stands for Unidentified Flying object 😉
However in this case I used it for the Unidentified customers who have placed FIRM ORDERS for airliners with boeing . Boeing always announced orders the day that they are signed however they list them as Unidentified until the Buyer chooses to make public his purchase . A case example here is the Unidentified order for 15 777’s that was placed last week where it is widely believed that GE’s leasing arm is the buyer however until GE announces them boeing wont disclose the name of the customer however the order has been FIRMED up and a contract SIGNED.
By: Dantheman77 - 21st November 2006 at 11:18
could somebody tell me what UFO stands for?
By: Bmused55 - 21st November 2006 at 09:43
We’ll have to wait and see I guess.
By: bring_it_on - 21st November 2006 at 08:56
Yeah, I noticed there are 32 UFOs for the 787
I could only come up with a guess for 11 of those (vietnam airlines) . what about the others? Can you guess some of the takers? They might be options however if there is a new customer IMO it almost has to be a bluechip airline (maybe SQ , or even LH).
By: Bmused55 - 21st November 2006 at 08:44
Yeah, I noticed there are 32 UFOs for the 787
By: bring_it_on - 21st November 2006 at 08:38
Whats even more interesting is that these were all new orders (not out of UFO’s) thereby taking boeing’s total tally to close to 850 jets !! Boeing still has something like 130 or so commitments to convert and if they convert all LOI’s they should come quite close to the 1000 mark !!
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