Aircraft
Boeing says 787 on schedule
Boeing 787 launch customer All Nippon Airways will take its first airplane in the second quarter of 2008, the program’s vice president of sales, marketing

Boeing 787 launch customer All Nippon Airways will take its first airplane in the second quarter of 2008, the program’s vice president of sales, marketing and product support, Marty Bentrott, confirmed here yesterday. Although he would not identify the contracted month, Bentrott did narrow the time frame from previous indications of “mid-2008.” Under Boeing’s current schedule, the major assembly on the airplane would start during this year’s third quarter and first flight would happen during the third quarter of 2007.