Posts Tagged ‘United Airlines’
Report: United looking to replace Boeing 767 widebody jets
United Airlines may be in the market for a big widebody purchase, with Reuters reporting the Chicago-based carrier is in talks with both Boeing and Airbus for a purchase that would help it replace the roughly 50 Boeing 767s that currently fly in its fleet. Reuters cites unnamed “people familiar with the discussions” in its…
Read MoreAirbus close to landing €14bn deal for jetliners
Airbus is on the verge of securing an order for 45 of its A350-900 wide-body jetliners – a critical win after a run of deferrals by US carriers. The deal would be valued at $14bn (€11.7bn) before discounts, according to the people, who asked not to be identified as the talks are private. The order…
Read MoreUnited’s $14 Billion Order Signals Airbus Gain on Boeing Domain
United Airlines is expanding an earlier order for Airbus SE ’s A350 jetliner, handing the European planemaker a critical win in its battle with Boeing Co. for supremacy in the wide-body jet market. The deal for 45 of the A350-900 planes, which is valued at $14 billion before customary discounts, replaces an earlier order for…
Read MoreUnited Airlines’ top pilot has a lot to say about perceived pilot shortage
United Airlines Capt. Todd Insler, head of the Chicago-based airline’s powerful pilots union, is upset about what he would undoubtedly classify as “fake news” about the nation’s airline industry — namely all the talk in recent months about an alleged shortage of commercial airline pilots in the United States. The perceived shortage would seem to…
Read MoreUnited retires domestic 747 flights
After ruling as “Queen of the Skies” for more than 40 years, the Boeing 747 made its last domestic run for United Airlines Friday night. To say she’s a big plane would be an understatement. The 747 has a tail six stories tall, can hold 3,400 pieces of baggage, and seats up to 440 passengers.…
Read MoreBoeing Woos United and Lion in a Bid to Boost Max 10 Launch
Chinese lessor CDB also said to study longest version of 737 Planemaker looks to slow gains of Airbus’s A321neo narrow-body Boeing Co. is in talks with United Airlines and at least four other companies as the U.S. planemaker tries to line up initial customers for its 737 Max 10 jetliner and gain ground on a…
Read MoreWill United Airlines Order New Jets From Bombardier or Embraer?
From late 2014 through 2015, there was growing speculation in industry circles that airline heavyweight United Continental would order jets in the 100-seat size class from either Bombardier or Embraer. This would have filled a gap between its largest regional jets, which have 76 seats, and its smallest mainline plane, the 126-seat Boeing 737-700. Instead,…
Read MoreUnited reviews $12.4B Airbus order in fleet revamp
United Continental is weighing whether to alter a $12.4 billion order for Airbus Group’s largest twin-engine jets and is studying a swap of Boeing’s smallest 737 for a longer version still on the drawing board. The airline may convert some of the Airbus A350-1000s to smaller long-haul models, Chief Financial Officer Andrew Levy said in…
Read MoreUnited chooses Boeing 737s in $3 billion snub of Bombardier
United Continental Holdings said it would buy 40 of Boeing’s smallest jetliner, snubbing Bombardier’s C Series in favor of a model that already accounts for the bulk of the airline’s fleet. The new Boeing 737-700 aircraft will enter service in mid-2017 as United cuts its use of cramped regional jets, the carrier said in a…
Read MoreUnited could add up to 50 100-seat aircraft
United Airlines executives have told analysts that they anticipate a fleet of 25 to 50 mainline aircraft with around 100 seats. The Chicago-based carrier would need at least 25 and up to 50 of the aircraft in order for such a fleet to “make sense given the added complexity associated with training, spares provisioning and…
Read MoreANALYSIS: Regional pilot woes could speed fleet changes at United
United Airlines could speed up the shift to large regional jets and small mainline aircraft from 50-seat regional jets if the pilot shortage at regional carriers gets worse in the coming years. The Chicago-based carrier removed 30-seat Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia turboprops from its feeder fleet during the first half of 2015 and is on-track to…
Read MoreUnited Airlines does not see a fit for Airbus A380
United Continental Holdings Inc has been in talks about purchasing the world’s biggest passenger jet from Airbus Group SE, the A380, but at the moment does not see it fitting with its fleet, the airline said Wednesday. The Chicago-based airline confirmed that its chief financial officer, John Rainey, told aviation news outlet Flightglobal: “We’ve looked…
Read MoreImplications Of A United Airlines A380 Superjumbo Order
There has been a rumor that has come from reliable sources at United Airlines that states the company is in intermediate stages in ordering the Airbus A380 – the world’s largest passenger aircraft. Airbus is reportedly going to be giving United two A380 aircraft on a trial basis that were originally destined for the now…
Read MoreUnited, Boeing Executives Talk Aviation
United Airlines is working to improve customer satisfaction by improving the reliability of its flights, and Boeing says the U.S. government next month needs to reauthorize an international credit agency that not only helps the aerospace giant sell airplanes but supports American businesses and jobs.. Those were among the topics that executives at United and…
Read MoreBoeing’s Latest Big Plane Sale Could Be a Tiny Nightmare for Profits
Not in the matter of sheer numbers, mind you. In fact, from the perspective of plain (or plane?) mathematics, nothing much changed about Boeing’s order book at all. One week ago, Boeing was telling investors it had booked 127 gross plane orders, suffered 16 cancellations, and thus ended up with a “net” order book of…
Read MoreUnited Airlines swaps 10 Boeing Dreamliners for 777-300ER jets
United Airlines said Thursday that it has swapped 10 orders of Boeing Co 787 Dreamliners for 10 larger 777-300ER jets, marking a victory for the plane manufacturer as it seeks to sell out the 777 planes before their production ends. The news follows months of speculation that Chicago-based United Continental Holdings Inc would make the…
Read MoreUnited Airlines, Avianca mull potential jet options for 757 fleet
United Airlines is looking at the latest upgraded A321 model from Airbus as well as concepts being touted by Boeing as potential replacements for its Boeing 757 fleet, but does not see a purchase in the near future, a senior executive said on Tuesday. The airline industry is increasingly debating the future of a potentially…
Read MoreU.S. Airlines Escalate Battle Against Their Gulf Rivals
Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and American Airlines yesterday released evidence of what they call unfair subsidies given to their fastest-growing rivals, Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways. The documents detail what the Big Three say is more than $42 billion in financial support the three Gulf airlines have received from their governments since 2004.…
Read MoreUnited Airlines to use its cash pile to buy aircraft this year
United Airlines expects to dip into its cash pile to help fund the purchase of new aircraft this year and rely less on debt financing, reflecting the U.S. airline industry’s dramatic financial turnaround, the carrier’s Chief Financial Officer John Rainey said in an interview. United, which had about $4.4 billion cash on hand at the…
Read MoreUnited Airlines considers shrinking width of seats, report says
Think your airplane seat has grown slimmer? You might be right. Over the past few years, more and more airplanes have been adding an extra seat to economy class rows by skimming as much as an inch and half from other seats. The latest airline considering a trim is United, Aviation Daily reported on Monday.…
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