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UPS orders Boeing freighters, reviewing Airbus order
2007-02-06
Delivery giant UPS unveiled a multibillion-dollar order for 27 Boeing freighter planes, while keeping Boeing's rival Airbus on tenterhooks over the fate of a superjumbo order. The new order triggered speculation over the separate order from UPS for 10 of the Airbus A380 freighters. Airbus has been plagued by delays to its gigantic plane.

But UPS said in a statement: "The order for the 27 B-767s is not related to UPS's ongoing review of its order for 10 Airbus A380 freighters." The A380 "superjumbo" is now two years behind schedule, with Singapore Airlines due to receive the first passenger version this October. The cargo version is not due until mid-2010. UPS is the only remaining customer after FedEx pulled out last year. "We want to know, is it going to be there on that schedule or do we have to look at alternatives?" UPS spokesman Mark Giuffre told AFP.
Posted by:Seafarious

#8  Now that EADS has failed with the airbus, lets get them to fail sonner than later on the LUH. They boast they have delivered their first aircraft, in reality they delivered the one test aircraft they had. They have no where to produce the next aircraft.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2007-02-06 20:40  

#7  From Ptah's link.

CEO of FedEx, says that 98 percent of the weight of international commerce is shipped by sea, but the 2 percent moved by air constitutes 40 percent of the economic value.

Jeebers.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-02-06 17:29  

#6  Might be a first Ptah. Good man.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-02-06 17:25  

#5  Here's a link to the George Will article that joe was talking about.
Posted by: Ptah   2007-02-06 11:24  

#4  Boeing better have more than that since Airbus has a 2500 plane backlog. End of 2006, Boeing had $174 billion backlog of commercial airliners or over 6 years at current production.
Posted by: ed   2007-02-06 11:23  

#3  I gather Boeing now has something like 1,100 aircraft on back order, which is about 50 more than they have ever had. And several of their non-aircraft divisions are also under capacity production, such as making JDAM conversion kits.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-02-06 09:53  

#2  I still like the way George Will described it - Airbus fought hard for a knowingly bad/lousy contract, then made things worse for itself by knowingly designing = producing a bad/lousy airplane.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-02-06 01:09  

#1  UPS is the only remaining customer after FedEx pulled out last year.

...and then there were none.
Posted by: RWV   2007-02-06 00:43  

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