And, as if this weren't bad enough, when the engines were returned from GE, a hard landing damaged one of them.News about Boeing Company, including commentary and archival articles published in. It comes about a year late, due to design issues with the GE Aviation GE9X engine that powers the airplane. The 777-9's first flight is today.

China Eastern acquired its 20 -300ERs between 2014-2017. But that was also before Covid-19.Even in that more optimistic time, Chinese airlines did not urgently need 777X aircraft since their 777-300ERs were still relatively young. China Eastern and wholly-owned subsidiary Shanghai Airlines fly the 787-9.That was in the lead up to the U.S.-China trade war easing with a pact committing China to purchasing goods like Boeing aircraft. Airlines globally are reworking their orderbooks, which could see 777X orders cancelled or delayed.Boeing expected mainland Chinese airlines to buy their first 787-10s, the higher-capacity variant popular with Asian airlines. It last sold 18 777X aircraft to British Airways in 2019 and 20 to Singapore Airlines in 2017. Since then, aviationвЂ™s global outlook has deteriorated.A passenger aircraft sale would be far more complicated, economically and politically, but also momentous.Boeing has not sold any 777X aircraft to a mainland Chinese airline, and recent sales elsewhere have been slow.

(Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty ImagesThe discounts on a 777-9 and 787 purchase were offered to help Boeing make an urgent sale. The plane took off from a rain-slicked runway a few minutes after 10:00 am local time (1800 GMT), at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, home to Boeing's manufacturing site in the northwestern US. - Boeing's new long-haul 777X airliner made its first flight Saturday, a major step forward for the company whose broader prospects remain clouded by the 737 MAX crisis. Washington on January 25, 2020.

It takes about 30 hours to bring fresh Chilean cherries from Chile to Ningbo by air freight. It is the first time for Air China Cargo to offer freighter service between Chile and China's Lingbo. Carrying over 100 tonnes of Chilean cherries lands at Ningbo Lishe International Airport on Novemin Ningbo, Zhejiang Province of China. But time-consuming government approval meant airframers and lessors usually looked elsewhere to quickly place aircraft.Aircraft intake agility in China would help the supply chain and give Chinese airlines better deals, lowering their cost of capital.NINGBO, CHINA - NOVEMBER 20: People welcome crew members with a banner after Boeing 777F freighter. ChinaвЂ™s strong aviation growth long made it an ideal market to absorb distressed aircraft from other regions. But the freighter would become valuable in coming weeks as air travelвЂ™s collapse created a shortage in cargo capacity.Quickly placing the 777 freighter in China would mark a near-breakthrough.

While China Cargo did not specify how many 777 freighters it would add, its prospectus said it would grow spare GE90 engines from one to three.вЂњThe company needs to introduce two more reserve engines,вЂќ the prospectus said, explaining the spares would вЂњensure the stable operation of the B777 fleet under the expansion of the fleet size. The court sided with Boeing, allowing it to resell the 777 freighters to Customer B, and a 747-8 freighter to undisclosed вЂњCustomer A.вЂќThe submitted contract makes reference to more than one aircraft but did not state if Customer B was taking all three from Volga-Dnepr вЂ“ or also buying more.China Cargo has six 777 freighters and one spare GE90 engine. That led Boeing to a formal deal with undisclosed вЂњCustomer B,вЂќ Boeing told the Seattle court in May.Boeing was in court after Volga-Dnepr, seeing the sudden shortage of cargo capacity, wanted to proceed with the aircraft acquisition it ended.

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