http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=BA:US&sid=ayF38xwOHb3g

The 50 options, filled, maybe?

With 787-10s?

Interesting possibilities if nothing else…

And then this, first posted on A.net:

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By Adam Tanner

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (Reuters) – Qantas Airways AX> is very likely to exercise its option to buy another 50 Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner jets on top of an existing order of 65 planes, the company’s chief financial officer said on Wednesday.

The airline, the world’s eighth-biggest passenger airline by market value, also hopes to decide in the coming months on new ultra long-range jets, Qantas Chief Financial Officer Peter Gregg told Reuters in an interview.

In December, the Australian carrier announced it would buy 65 Boeing 787s for more than $10 billion, with the option to purchase another 50, also worth more than $10 billion. Officials met in San Francisco to sign the deal on Wednesday.

“Effectively, there are 65 orders out there in the books straight away and you get the ability to buy another 50 at the prices we have negotiated,” Gregg said. “We will want those 50, I am pretty sure of that.”

He said Qantas had negotiated a discount from Boeing’s list price, but declined to give specific numbers.

Qantas decided on the Boeing jets after also considering the A350 made by Airbus, which is 80 percent owned by European Aerospace Defence & Space Co. and 20 percent by Britain’s BAE Systems Plc .

Naturellement, je suis un peu en retard… mais joyeux anniversaire! Merci beaucoup pour ce que tu as fait pour ce forum!

Is it possible to take options without placing a firm order? (Is there a deposit involved still?)

Or what would prevent me from taking options on a few 772LRs… I’m a college student with far, far less than the $150 million sticker on the 77C. 😀

Well this is the belief from the interior. We reckon the A346 will continue to arrive in large numbers, the A380’s will arrive shortly before departure of the B744’s to be replaced with a large order for B773-ER. Don’t think Virgin will be interested in the A350.

Interesting opinion. I would have thought (yes, I know, just thought) that Virgin would replace the 744s with 748Is but leave 773ERs out of the equation entirely.

I guess my question, then, is what does this say about the potential of seeing the 748 and 787-sized planes in Virgin’s fleet?

Could be… guess we’ll see.

But that would be a sweet deal — 777Fs for the USAF… mmm… (not that I’m biased toward the 777 at all :dev2: )

Grey Area — interestingly enough, Boeing uses the same name (Unk-unks) for the same situation Rumsfeld described, though surely years earlier.

(According to “The 21st Century Jet: The Building of the Boeing 777”)

I must agree… I dunno if it’s the livery or the clouds, but the A346 just looks like business.

And I’m of the T7 camp!