Ethiopian Airlines Increases 787 Dreamliner Order by Five Airplanes

PR Newswire ^ | May 31, 2005

[blackdog]

I could see Ethiopia needing the jumbo liners for departing flights. It's the inbounds that I'd think would be operating at a loss................

[Righty_McRight]

Ethiopian Airlines moved quickly to secure its five additional delivery positions for the 787 following a series of recent order announcements for the airplane, which is essentially sold out for its first three years of production.

Now that is the part that might give the Airbus a350 some life.

[ConservativeStatement]

Boeing's 1-year stock chart:

http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/intchart.asp?symb=ba&sid=874&siteid=mktw

[LostDog]

Thanks for the skinny on the situation.

[mhx]

In the meantime in Zimbabwe they're operating flights with a single passenger.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

blackdog wrote:

I could see Ethiopia needing the jumbo liners for departing flights. It's the inbounds that I'd think would be operating at a loss................

--Yup, that's standard operating procedure for any third world country, more peeps go out than come back. :P

[1FASTGLOCK45]

mhx wrote:
In the meantime in Zimbabwe they're operating flights with a single passenger.

-->If i had the money, I'd have my own dreamliner and be the only passenger too, or get a chance to take it for a spin

[em2vn]

Did the Dreamliner name come from a Ford auto of the 1950s? I know there was a Skyliner, a hard top convertible I believe.

[Righty_McRight]

Looks like an RV from the 70's.

http://usedmotorhome.com/xq/asp.Public_Details/type.Class+C/id.8011/used+Dreamer+Dreamliner+Class+C.htm#p

[brooklin]

Ping

[Paleo Conservative]

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[pissant]

More good news for the Big B (the company, not the Freeper)!

[patton]

yes, but imagine the in-flight meals - all that food I told my mother to mail to Ethiopia...

[cyborg]

That's good. My boss has a house there and goes back and forth doing business. I would love to visit there and get to know the culture.

[Larry Lucido]

I think Starvin Marvin might need a ride home on one.

[redfreedom]

I remember riding on Ethiopian Airlines as USASA troop in the late 60's. Outstandingly good looking Ehiopian stews!

[cyborg]

Very spicey food.

[blackdog]

Get to know the culture of Ethiopia? Maybe a thousand years ago.....sure. The only thing to know about their culture today is that they live on arrid land on the large part and the population has been systematically culled as a means of control for a hundred years now.

I hope your boss's home has 20 foot high surrounding walls and is called a compound.

[Central Scrutiniser]

I eat Ethiopian/Eritrean food all the time, its fantastic. Especially the injera bread that you use to wrap the stews (Doro Wat or Lentils or collard greens and potatos). Eat with your hands, tasty stuff, complex spice.