#Dreamliner

Flydubai inks US$11 billion deal for 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners (Image: Supplied by flydubai)

Flydubai inks $11bn deal for 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners

Deliveries from its first widebody aircraft order will commence in 2026

Etihad A380

Etihad’s focus on smaller aircraft puts fleet plans in limbo

Etihad has a fleet of 40 Dreamliners and potentially 11 more still to come after already trimming its order by 20 aircraft in 2019

Emirates mulls swapping a third of Boeing 777X orders to 787

The carrier is seeking to switch between 30 and 40 of its 115 commitments for the 777X to the Dreamliner as it calibrates fleet plans

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways launches region’s first aircraft carbon offset programme

The initiative is the airline’s attempt to reduce 2019 CO2 emission levels to 50 per cent by 2035

Boeing mulls equity sale, plans new cut to Dreamliner output

Demand for the 787 has been particularly hard hit, with international travel down 90 per cent from a year ago

EPI expands capacity to build Boeing 787 Dreamliner parts in UAE

Earlier this year, EPI became a key regional manufacturer of Airbus aircraft parts

Airbus beats Boeing on deliveries, avoids order cancellations

Airbus customers to get jets in August included Gulf Air, which took its first A321neo, and Portuguese carrier Orbest, which received an initial A330-900 wide-body