Boeing will build far fewer planes and end production of its 747 jumbo jets after coronavirus hammers its finances By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:26 BST, 29 July 2020 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 29 July 2020 Boeing will build far fewer planes and end the production of its 747 jumbo jets after … Read more
Terrifying moment huge flames rip through a Boeing 777 as it parks on the tarmac of a Chinese airport Shocking footage shows the burning aircraft covered in blaze and black smoke The Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane caught the fire today at an airport in Shanghai No injuries or deaths have been reported by authorities as the time … Read more
The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that was the favorite American presidents and key to affordable mass market air travel in the United States, has passed into aviation history. Nearly 50 years after the its debut, the 747 took its final commercial flight with an American carrier on Delta Air Lines. It ‘made flying … Read more
Boeing is set to begin a week of flight safety tests in a bid to get its 737 Max back into the skies, after the plane was grounded following two fatal crashes. The best-selling aircraft was grounded around 15 months ago after two fatal crashes killed 346 people. Now, the Boeing 737 Max is set to … Read more
Tui strikes compensation deal with Boeing for grounding of the 737 Max plane By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 3 June 2020 | Updated: 22:38 BST, 3 June 2020 Tui said Boeing would provide compensation for a significant portion of the financial impact of the grounding of the 737 Max Tour … Read more
Boeing eyes job cuts at its high-tech Sheffield plant as it slashes 10% of its global workforce amid Covid slump By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:30 BST, 2 June 2020 | Updated: 23:20 BST, 2 June 2020 Boeing is considering cutting jobs at its high-tech plant in Sheffield as it battles to … Read more
Boeing announced it will involuntarily lay off nearly 7,000 employees in the US as a part of a wave of 13,000 global cuts in a previously announced plan to cut costs amid the coronavirus pandemic. The aerospace giant disclosed there will be roughly 6,770 involuntary layoffs among US employees. Another 5,520 workers were approved for … Read more
Boeing and Airbus are studying how coronavirus may spread on their airplanes, and taking a no-stone-unturned approach to developing a way to minimize risks as they search for a way to restart business amid the pandemic. They’re trying to pinpoint how the virus moves inside a plane cabin, and experimenting with using ultraviolet (UV) light to … Read more
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit has failed on its first attempt to launch a rocket attached to the wing of a Boeing 747 due to an ‘anomaly’. The company confirmed Monday that the rocket’s debut flight over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California was unsuccessful. The inaugural launch had appeared to be going well … Read more
Inside Roman Abramovich’s customised Boeing jet dubbed ‘The Bandit’ with banquet suite and a missile defence system Chelsea owner and Russia oligarch Roman Abramovich owns an aircraft fleet worth around £400million The most luxurious aircraft he owns is the Boeing 747-33A ER which he himself calls ‘The Bandit’ ‘The Bandit’ has a banquet suite which … Read more