Boeing to Overhaul 737 - Wednesday, March 02, 2005 at 12:40
PARIS (AFP) - Boeing plans to overhaul its 737 family of single-aisle aircraft in the next 10 years, applying the advanced technologies of its 787 aircraft, a senior Boeing executive said here.
"One of our options we look at is to take all the learning and all the technologies involved in the 787 ... and apply all those to the single-aisle categories," Randy Baseler, vice president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, said at a news conference.
The new 787 Dreamliner long-haul aircraft, aimed at achieving high fuel effeciency, is Boeing's latest project. It is expected to enter service in 2008.
Referring to the planned update of the 737, a short-to-medium-range aircraft, Baseler said: "We have not defined what that airplane will actually look like," adding that studies were under way.
Asked about a possible launch date for the new-look 737, he replied: "probably sometime in the next decade."
"Right now, all that we are saying is we don't have a firm date yet, because part of that is the market dynamic -- when will the customer really want it, when will Airbus do something," he said, referring to Boeing's arch-rival Airbus of Europe.
"I suspect that what it will be is not a continuation of the 737 family," he added.
The latest version of the 737, a model popular with low-cost airlines and in direct competition with the Airbus 320, dates from 1993.
Boeing estimates it will sell 14,715 units of the 737 aircraft in the next 20 years.
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