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Interest for the 777X aircraft is "High and still growing", Boeing CEO claims

Charleston, USA - The development programme might be launched by this year

During a conference for the investors, Boeing's Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney declared that the interest for the 777X, the upgraded version of the B-777 wide-bodied aircraft, is "High and still growing", and that the development programme might be launched by this year. According to the CEO Airbus "Doesn’t “have an airframe that can compete with the 777X. They don’t have the appetite to do...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1152409
Rome, Italy, 05/23/2013 11:41
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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