EK : garanzie per 787 più larghi

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Emirates seeks a guarantee that Boeing will build a larger version of the 787 Dreamliner before the carrier chooses planes to replace older aircraft and add routes.

Emirates may buy 100 Boeing 787s or Airbus A350s in a deal with a value of at least $16 billion at list prices. In considering the 787, the airline wants a firm option of a bigger plane, Vice Chairman Maurice Flanagan said in a July 16 interview in London.

"We'd like an absolute guarantee that they will make that aircraft by a certain date," he said. Boeing is not yet building a larger version, the 787-10, because only Emirates and Qantas have demanded it, he said.

Emirates plans to pick one model in the 300-seat category rather than a combination of planes. The A350 made Airbus will enter fleets in 2013, five years after the 787 begins service.

Emirates Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum said in an interview at the Paris Air Show last month that the carrier had "enough information now on the two types" of aircraft and may make a decision as early as the Dubai Air Show in November.

"We want a bigger one" than Boeing is "talking about at the moment" Flanagan said. "Boeing says, `Look at the 767, it's a vastly different aircraft now from the one we started off with, it goes a lot farther and carries a lot more. We'll do the same thing with the 787.' But we'd like something rather less vague."


Boeing 787 program manager Michael Bair has said that making the 787-10, the fourth planned version of the plane, is a "matter of when, not if." Boeing's board has not yet approved producing the aircraft.


Richard Pinkham, a consultant for the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation in Singapore, said it makes sense for Emirates to use leverage as a big customer to push Boeing just as it was "very vocal about pushing Airbus to make improvements to the A350."

"When Emirates buys its next big order, they want to make sure that the product family can fill a variety of range and size roles," Pinkham said.

"The top-of-the-range 787-10 would push the size range out from the current portfolio of 242-280 seats to add a unit with 310 seats," he said. "For its part, Boeing is hesitating about rolling out a 300-seat model because a more-efficient airplane in the same 300-seat range as its popular 777-200 will do considerable harm to sales of that aircraft."

Boeing is working with airlines to determine the exact capabilities and configuration of the 787-10, a stretch version of the Dreamliner, the company has said. It would join the 787-8, which seats as many as 250 people and enters service in 2008; the 787-3, a 330-seat version optimized for shorter ranges; and the first stretch model, a 290-seat 787-9, scheduled for 2010.

The 787-10 was "penciled in" for 2012 and has been moved to 2013 because of strong demand for earlier versions, Boeing's Bair said July 6 ahead of the July 8 rollout of the first Dreamliner. The new date allows the planemaker to "get more time and experience in understanding how to make the "10' even better.''

Qantas, Australia's biggest airline, wants a bigger version of the 787 capable of carrying 350 passengers, Chief Executive Officer Geoff Dixon said July 6 in Seattle during events for the Dreamliner rollout. "We are looking to Boeing to commit to a '10' with a longer range but with the same technology as the 787."

Emirates plans to start flying between Dubai and Sao Paulo in October, followed by service to Houston in December. The carrier is adding flights to Buenos Aires, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

[Steman]

Quindi un'eventuale 787-10 non potrebbe essere pronto prima del 2013.
A questo punto tanto vale puntare sul 350-900 o 1000.

Ciao

Stefano

[AZJumbo]

no, i 350 900 e 1000 saranno pronti dopo il 2013, uno o due anni dopo.

è tutto calcolato per sostituire il 772ER il più tardi possibile, ma precedere airbus per rubare gli ordini