It’s an exciting week for Gulf Air. Not only has the airline announced plans to fly to New York (JFK), but the Bahrain-based carrier has also signed an agreement to more than double its wide body fleet.
Continue reading: Gulf Air Orders Up To 18 Boeing 787s, As Part Of Massive Expansion
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As everyone knows that a Boeing order placed today may never see the order completed in most readers lifetime, this announcement is nothing to get excited about.
I can assure you that Boeing is taking orders for new aircraft and those new orders will be delivered before the completion of existing orders.
No major supplier sells out its entire delivery schedule years in advance and esp. so that it is incapable of gaining new customers.
New 787 orders today will see first deliveries in the 3-5 year time frame.
I think it is safe to say that many readers of this site expect to be alive in 3-5 years.
🙂 …. 🙂 …. do be careful of your predictions Tim, with the state of the mentally of some who post herein …. both yours and my effigies will be full of voodoo pin holes before the end of the month …. the poor darlinks ….
Sigh, at first I thought I would just skip comments from TD, then I decided to skip every post that mentioned Delta to avoid annoying comments and counter comments. Now maybe I will just skip every post about Boeing. It's really annoying and I know this blog belongs to Lucky and he's free to write what he wants but I find myself reading it less and less. Guys please start your own blogs and stop flooding the comment section
Seriously, GF, just join the Star Alliance already. GF’s CEO Jeffrey Goh was previously the CEO of the Star Alliance, and is from Singapore. Star is losing out in the Gulf by not having an airline from there, so why not the airline that’s literally named Gulf Air? Meanwhile Oneworld marches ahead with QR, RJ and now WY...
the only person that addressed the ATL-based megacarrier in the comments section is you.
YOU are part of the group of people that are your own worst enemies.
But Ken, surely you know?
You know that clicks = cents, cents = points, points = flights, flights = reviews. No reviews = no clicks, no clicks = no, cents, no cents = no points, no points = no flights, no flights = no reviews, no reviews = no readers …. come on sunshine get with the program, smell the coffee and enjoy the editorial content, surely you are able to edit out the content in which you have no interest, yes?
does anyone remember the leased Gulf L-1011 that TWA used to run on their short lived 9 am morning departure from JFK to LHR in the late 70's, she was a spacious beauty