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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Boeing 777X Inches Towards Certification With First New Plane Flight In Five Years
Boeing has gotten a new 777X prototype in the air, the fifth of its kind, as the aircraft finally starts gaining some traction in its long-delayed certification process. This is specifically a 777-9, the longer of the two variants at 251 feet. The other four prototypes were all first flown in 2020, so this one has been five years in coming. It's probably not a coincidence that, at the same time, Boeing announced that Cathay Pacific ordered an additional 14 of the aircraft once it's ready for delivery. When will that delivery date be? Boeing is still hopeful that it will hit its target of 2026, although it should be mentioned that the original target was 2020. In July, the 777X completed its Stage 2B certification (out of a total of five stages), per Simple Flying. That's good news, in that things are moving along. But that also means that it took Boeing five years to get through one and a half stages, with several more to go, and it's trying to start selling the plane next year. Good luck! Read more: Cheap-Feeling, Underpowered, Or Just Ugly, These Cars Don't Justify Their Price The Biggest Twinjet In The World The 777-9 is the biggest twinjet airliner in the world, a modernized update to the aging 777. In addition to upgraded avionics and more passenger capacity, it's rocking the General Electric GE9X engine, the largest ever fit to commercial aircraft. That's good for 5% better fuel efficiency and less overall noise. Larger, curved wings add another 5% fuel efficiency. It's a beast, but not a hungry one. But it has been a temperamental one. Issues with the avionics, Flight Control System, and those big engines have all delayed certification time and again. Then there's been those pesky "uncommanded pitch events," also known as "losing control of the plane." The entire prototype fleet was actually grounded back in August 2024, though the FAA recertified them for testing in January 2025. Despite the fact that airlines can't take possession of them, the 777X has been selling pretty well. Boeing has received 70 orders for them just in the first half of this year, bringing the total up to 551, not even including the new Cathay Pacific deal. Naturally, tariffs have made deliveries a financially fraught process, so exactly when and how each airline will get them is an open question. Then again, the plane still has to get certified anyway. 2026! Boeing promises. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Malay Mail
5 days ago
- Business
- Malay Mail
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific unveils deal to buy 14 Boeing jets worth RM34.2b, with option for seven more
HONG KONG, Aug 6 — Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific said today it would place an US$8.1-billion (RM34.2 billion) order for 14 Boeing jets, its first with the US aircraft maker for more than a decade. In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, the airline said it would 'purchase 14 Boeing 777-9 aircraft' and had 'secured the right to acquire up to seven additional Boeing 777-9 aircraft'. Cathay already has a fleet of more than 230 mostly passenger aircraft. The new order expects the aircraft to be delivered by 2034, according to a separate filing. Cathay was one of the first buyers to commit to Boeing's 777X programme when it unveiled the purchase of 21 aircraft in 2013. Boeing said in a statement the new deal brought the order book of 777-9 aircraft -- 'the world's largest twin-engine airplane' -- to 35. The aircraft, designed to reduce fuel use and emissions, would meet Cathay's growing global travel demand, Boeing added. Hong Kong's aviation sector was hit hard by Covid-era policies, which imposed strict rules on travellers that kept it internationally isolated before they were lifted in late 2022. In 2024 Cathay's attributable profit rose slightly to US$1.27 billion, however, and it announced earlier that year that its flights were finally back to pre-pandemic levels. Today, the firm reported its attributable profit rose slightly to HK$3.65 billion in the first six months of the year, benefiting from a pick-up in travel demand in Asia. Total revenue in that period increased 9.5 per cent to US$6.92 billion. The company also declared an interim dividend of HK$20 cents per share. Chairman Patrick Healy heralded a 'solid financial performance' in the filing. 'Our first-half result was driven by higher passenger volumes albeit with lower yields, a consistent cargo performance, and lower fuel price compared with the same period in 2024,' Healy said. The company's passenger airlines, including Cathay Pacific and Hong Kong Express, have launched or announced 19 new destinations so far in 2025, with 'more to come', he said, adding that they now fly to more than 100 passenger destinations. This month, the airline said it had resumed direct flights to Brussels after a long break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But the firm also saw a drop of 0.6 per cent in profit margin for the first half of the year. And Healy warned in the filing that its low-cost airline HK Express was facing short-term challenges as a pick-up in bookings was 'yet to return to normal levels'. Cathay's share price in Hong Kong fell nine per cent following the results. — AFP
BusinessToday
04-07-2025
- Business
- BusinessToday
Stock Today: Capital A Slips At Midday As MAG Eyes Bigger Jet Deal With Airbus
Capital A Bhd's shares edged 1.18% lower to RM0.84 by midday Thursday, shedding one sen from the previous close, as trading momentum softened ahead of wider sector developments. The counter hovered between RM0.835 and RM0.855, with over 4.8 million shares traded by 2.06pm. The market's subdued sentiment came as industry attention turned to Malaysia Aviation Group's (MAG) potential aircraft order expansion. According to industry sources, MAG, the parent of Malaysia Airlines, is close to firming up an order for additional Airbus A330neo long-haul jets, with a possible announcement expected during Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's official visit to Paris this week. While the deal has no direct bearing on Capital A, which operates the low-cost AirAsia fleet, the anticipated order underscores MAG's growth ambitions in full-service long-haul operations, a segment Capital A has also explored in the past through its widebody arm, AirAsia X. The Airbus development, paired with broader industry moves in aerospace and fleet modernisation, is seen by some investors as a potential reconfiguration moment for Malaysia's aviation landscape. The earlier 2022 agreement between MAG and Airbus included 20 confirmed A330neo orders with options for another 20, which the group is now considering exercising. MAG has also signalled interest in evaluating larger aircraft such as the Airbus A350, Boeing 787 and Boeing 777X. Capital A continues to focus on digital expansion and its MRO business through Asia Digital Engineering, but investor sentiment has remained cautious amid increased competition and slow financial clarity on the group's transformation. The counter has been consolidating just below the RM0.90 threshold in recent weeks, with aviation stocks broadly reacting to both global macro headwinds and shifting strategic alignments among key players. Related
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Great News for Boeing Investors
The narrative around Boeing stock continues to improve. Keeping the 777X on track for first delivery in 2026 is a key aim for Boeing. There are real signs of improvement at Boeing under Kelly Ortberg. 10 stocks we like better than Boeing › Boeing (NYSE: BA) received some positive commentary over a critical issue for its future. At a recent International Air Transport Association (IATA) summit, the president of Emirates airline, Tim Clark, made positive comments on the new widebody 777X, which should reassure investors that Boeing is on the right track under CEO Kelly Ortberg. Here's why. According to a Reuters article, Clark stated that Emirates had been informed it would receive its first 777X in the second half of 2026 or the first quarter of 2027. In addition, he declared himself "cautiously optimistic" over the turnaround at Boeing and noted progress at the aerospace giant. These are just comments. However, they matter, and particularly so when they come from the head of one of the largest international airlines in the world, Emirates. In addition, while Lufthansa is set to receive the first 777X in 2026, Emirates is, by some distance, the largest customer for the 777X at present. The airline has 205 unfilled orders for the 777X, followed by 97 unfilled orders from Qatar Airways, with Singapore Airlines a distant third with 31. The 777X is also pivotal to Boeing's future. The new widebody is larger and has a more extended range than Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and will service the high-demand long-haul international travel market. Generally, Airbus is considered the leader in the narrowbody market, while Boeing holds the lead in the widebody market. That said, Airbus has surpassed Boeing in the widebody market in recent years, partly due to quality control issues with the 787 and ongoing, costly delays on the Boeing 777X. Simply put, Boeing needs to keep the 777X on track, not least because airlines are likely to be more hesitant in placing orders when they see continued delivery delays. Furthermore, the delays are extremely costly, in terms of charges, and tying up capital in inventory that won't be utilized until deliveries take place. The 777X was initially intended to have its first delivery in 2020, and the subsequent delays to that timeline have proved embarrassing and costly for Boeing. In its fourth-quarter 2020 earnings report, Boeing recorded a $6.5 billion pre-tax charge on the program and informed investors that the first 777X delivery would occur in late 2023. Last October, Boeing announced a $2.6 billion charge, followed by a further $900 million charge in January. These charges total at least $10 billion. Furthermore, Boeing has inventory tied up in the program, and it's incurring increased research and development costs, with an increase of $525 million in 2023 and $435 million in 2024. Stemming the flow of these charges and losses would be a significant plus; that's why keeping to the revised 2026 target for first delivery is so important. It also counts because it discourages airlines from canceling orders and encourages them to place new orders. Suppose Boeing can demonstrate that it can deliver the first 777X in 2026 and effectively ramp up production thereafter. In that case, airlines can begin to build capacity assumptions based on having 777Xs in service at a given time. As previously discussed, the three key things investors need to see from Boeing are a satisfactory ramp-up in production on the 737 MAX (to an initial 38 a month), a return to profitability for Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), and keeping the 777X on track. With Boeing making tangible progress on the 737 MAX (management expects to reach a 38-month rate soon), and BDS returning to profitability in the first quarter, the positive commentary on the 777X suggests Ortberg is achieving Boeing's three biggest aims in 2025. That's something likely to support the stock price as it moves through the year. Before you buy stock in Boeing, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Boeing wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. 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The National
02-06-2025
- Business
- The National
Emirates boss 'cautiously optimistic' Boeing will deliver 777X jet by 2027
Emirates Airline president Tim Clark is 'cautiously optimistic' about Boeing's prospects of delivering the long-delayed 777X jet by early 2027. The Dubai-based carrier could receive its first wide-body plane between the third or fourth quarter of 2026 and the first quarter of 2027, and is getting 'clearer messages' on that delivery programme, Mr Clark said on the sidelines of the International Air Transport Association (Iata) annual meeting in New Delhi on Sunday. 'I'm quite impressed with the energy, the concern they have about getting that done … that's why I was cautiously optimistic because they weren't just talking the talk, they were walking the talk,' Mr Clark told reporters in the Indian capital. Referring to his recent meeting with Kelly Ortberg, Mr Clark praised the Boeing chief executive's efforts to turn the company around. 'I can see a high degree of determination and earnestness to get the job done,' he said. Mr Clark plans to visit Boeing in September to see the assembly lines and inspect the work. He recalled a previous Boeing visit in 2023 when 'I ran out screaming and I thought 'this is going nowhere',' he said. There have been a number of delays to Boeing's 777X programme, originally scheduled to be complete by 2020. Under the terms of their current contract, Boeing is required to hand over the first jet to Emirates by October 2025. While that is no longer achievable, there is a 'glimmer of light', according to Mr Clark. 'The important thing is they get it out and it's certified to the rigours of the new Boeing approach to building aircraft, safety of operations and all the quality controls that they were having difficulties with before that,' he said. If Boeing manages to get ETOPS certification flight test programme by the first quarter of 2026, then 'it is conceivable' that the aircraft will make its first entry into service by the third or fourth quarter of next year. Emirates is already organising buyer-furnished equipment for its first 777X aircraft to be installed at Boeing's factory. Besides getting the 777X jets out of the door, Boeing also faces the challenge of ramping up production as quickly as it can, Mr Clark said. If Emirates had received the aircraft on its original schedule, it would be operating 80 of the 777-9s by now. Mr Clark is 'hearing good stories' about the aircraft's wing, propulsion and take-off weights 'but seeing is believing and we're watching very closely'. With continuing delays in new aircraft deliveries, Emirates has put 219 aircraft through a full cabin refresh at a total investment of $5 billion in its retrofit programme, according to its latest annual financial report. Meanwhile, the airline has added the first four Airbus A350-900s to its fleet and is satisfied with the engine and aircraft performance. While the aircraft deliveries are 'constantly delayed', when they do fly, they are 'very popular' and the dispatch reliability is very high, he said. However, Emirates has held off from ordering the larger A350-1000 variant as Mr Clark remains critical of Rolls-Royce's Trent XWB-97 engine durability in the Gulf's harsh and hot climate conditions. If the Trent XWB-97 engine improvements are sorted out, then there is 'absolutely no reason' why the A350-1000 plane cannot be successful with Middle East carriers, he said. First-class upgrade on A380s Meanwhile, Emirates, a long-standing champion of the Airbus A380, will keep the double-decker in its fleet until the 'back-end' of the next decade, Mr Clark said. The duration of the A380s' lifetime is related to the product support that Emirates gets and it now has a 'huge store of parts', he said. The airline will also introduce a new design upgrade to the first-class cabin of its A380s to keep it refreshed through the end of the 2030s. 'Like a hotel, you've got to keep at it and we'll change out the products,' Mr Clark said. The new first-class for the aircraft is 'on the drawing board' now, he said, declining to divulge details. DWC expansion To grow Emirates' operations beyond the constraints of its home base in Dubai International Airport, the Dubai government is expanding its second hub at Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC). The construction work on the site is 'going at pace' and Mr Clark said he would not be surprised if the project gets delivered faster than its scheduled timeline in early 2030s. 'The workers are on-site and the equipment is on-site. We might even get it faster,' he said, declining to provide a prediction for an earlier delivery date. Asked if US suppliers such as engine-maker GE Aerospace could pass on tariff-related costs to airline customers like Emirates, Mr Clark said: 'They can ask what they want. I expect them to absorb a lot of that in their own margins.' However the on-again, off-again nature of the tariffs will make it difficult for suppliers to present their customers with predictable prices. 'At what point can you actually change a price point and present it to your customers on the basis of this ever-changing landscape of costs?' he said. Iata's 81st annual meeting of airline chiefs, with IndiGo as the host carrier, is taking place amid the turbulence of global trade tensions and difficulties around meeting the industry's goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
