Boeings 787 Dreamliner
In less than two weeks Boeing Aircraft Corporation has scored two powerful coups over rival EADS and its Airbus subsidiary. Wining a $35 billion refueling tanker contract from the US Air Force she has now circumnavigated the globe and received 43 commercial orders, worth $10 billion, from the Chinese. More importantly, the deal encompasses the full spectrum of Boeing’s jumbo aircraft including the mighty super jumbo B-747-800, the versatile B-777 and the new B-787 Dreamliner.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on March 8, 2011, that Air China's general manager, Zhang Yang, insisted, “Air China [is]…not ruling out further orders for the new jumbo.” This possibility will further strengthen Boeing’s position in the fastest growing commercial aircraft market in the world, according to Alison Leung and James Pomfret from Reuters’s.
Airbus A-380 Super Jumbo verses Boeing B-787 Dreamliner
Several years ago the media focused on the delays in the delivery of Airbus’s A-380 super jumbo and compared it to the delays of Boeing’s B-787 Dreamliner. Today a multitude of media outlets continue to compard the two aircraft, not from a delay standpoint but from the operational characteristics of the specific airplanes.