Boeing has surpassed the 900 order mark for its Boeing 787 Dreamliner program, the company says.The airframer added 15 additional 787 Dreamliners to its 2008 order book, bringing the total to 910 firm orders. The order is attributed to an unidentified customer and is listed on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries website.
A Boeing spokeswoman indicated the order is for a new customer, bringing the total to 59. The variant of 787 was not specified.
The updated order total also reflects 2 new 777 for an unidentified customer.
The 787 Dreamliner is expected to enter service in the first quarter of 2010.
on December 11, 2008 7:47 PM | Reply
All along, this program has used popularity as the prime measure. Okay, that is fine from a certain viewpoint, but it does not resolve engineering and manufacturing problems.
Every time Boeing has announced a slide, it has also pushed up the stack of buyers. It's almost as if the growing number is supposed to tell us that things are fine. Is this what we're seeing here? By the way, we can look at the data to see if my suggested correlation exists.
Granted, customers bellying up to the bar with money says something. That the number is high speaks a lot of things about Boeing.
Yet, it is a distraction from the engineering issues, in a sense. There is a whole lot that we can all learn from this program and its troubles.
Let's hope that in retrospect this analysis can happen.
on December 11, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply
Interesting that American's order still isn't listed. Was there a time frame in which American's pilots' union approval was expected?
on December 11, 2008 8:50 PM | Reply
Is there any way to see just the 787 orders somewhere. I can only find the order for all birds together on the Boeing site and then you have to trace back by each year. If there was a way to look at the orders for each type of bird, I would love to know it. As someone else said, AA's orders still aren't listed yet a recent article talked about them delaying delivery.
on December 12, 2008 3:56 AM | Reply
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_787_orders
differentiated into type, engine, customer
( and seemingly complete )
uwe
on December 19, 2008 1:08 PM | Reply
I have a feeling that the 15 unit 787 order is from Ryanair to facilitate their stated intention of crossing the atlantic. The fact that the Aer Lingus merger looks unlikely coupled with O'Learys historical ability of securing Boeing aircraft at massive discounts makes this a strong possibility.
on January 17, 2009 5:25 AM | Reply
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