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...Chicago) has learned. And it wasn't an easy one. Not long ago, the company was under fire for losing ground to Airbus, based in Toulouse, France, the competitor that had just primed its ascendancy by investing $10 billion in a modern-day Spruce Goose, the 555-seat A380. In 2003 a paper by two professors at the State University of New York at Buffalo even suggested that Boeing would be out of the jetliner business by 2013--the year the largest 787 model, the 787-10, is now set to launch. The 787-8 will fly from Paine Field...
...manufacturers, has long been a company that thrived on a shared approach, although most of what it is sharing now is pain. The company's woes--ranging from 10,000 announced layoffs this past spring to the two-year production delays (costing an additional $3 billion) of the A380 have wiped out the lead it had on Boeing. Total orders so far this year show Boeing with 701, 13 more than Airbus. In the weeks following the highly publicized 787 rollout on July 8, Boeing posted its largest quarterly profit in nearly four years, at $1.1 billion...
Percentage by which the design of the Dreamliner will reduce fuel usage compared with similarly sized planes. Claims for the jet's main rival, the much larger Airbus A380, also include an environmental edge: by ferrying more passengers, it can reduce congestion and emissions in the skies...
...million Estimated price of the Airbus A380 superjumbo purchased by an anonymous buyer at the Paris air show for use as a private...
...Number of passengers that can fit in the A380. The double-decker will debut on commercial carriers later this year...