US business class-only start-up Primaris Airlines has set out plans to take 20 Boeing 737-800s and to acquire 20 Boeing 7E7-8s for use in its all-business class shuttles. Las Vegas, Nevada-based Primaris plans services from 2005 and says it will need up to 45 Boeing 737-800s for city-pair operations. Primaris says the 7E7-8s, to be delivered between 2010 and 2013, will fly long-range services. The airline also has options for 15 more of the type.
Source: Flight International
There is a sense among people who study Boeing that the company’s board of directors made a very good decision in picking longtime aerospace executive Kelly Ortberg to succeed David Calhoun as chief executive.
Boeing chief executive David Calhoun thinks the company could have its 737 Max 7 and Max 10 certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration in the first half of 2025, while cautioning that the regulator will determine ultimate timing.
Boeing still aims by year-end to boost production to 38 737s and five 787s monthly, returning to output levels at which the company had said it was operating prior to this year’s production slowdown.
