Word: jumbos
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...business, acquiring companies that made such popular products as Turns antacids and Oxy acne medicine. Bergerac now plans to play tennis and spend time with his family before examining several job offers he has already received. He will not need to choose one too quickly. AIRLINES A Pair of Jumbo Deals...
...week for United Airlines. In Washington, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole approved the Pacific routes that United bought from Pan Am in April for $750 million. And in Chicago, United announced that it was buying 116 planes worth $3.1 billion from Boeing. Included on United's shopping list were six jumbo 747s and 110 small Boeing 737s, which are used for shorter hops. Some of the 747s are specially equipped to carry 400 passengers and fly a range of 8,000 miles, ideal for flights across the Pacific...
...United sale was the second billion-dollar deal for Boeing in less than a month. Three weeks ago, the Seattle aircraft manufacturer received a $2 billion order from Northwest for a fleet of ten 747s and ten 757s. At least some of those jumbo jets will be used to compete with United in the lucrative transpacific market, where Northwest currently reigns among U.S. carriers...
...another of Bush's missed opportunities and the only thing that made me smile on that miserable day. Kees Broertjes Amsterdam Transatlantic Aircraft Re your article on the competition between Boeing and its rival, Airbus, the European commercial-airplane manufacturer [Jan. 24]: As Airbus rolls out its new A380 jumbo airliner, you might have noted that U.S. companies provide much of the A380's expensive avionics equipment. If customers choose the model fitted with the GP7200 engines from Engine Alliance (a joint venture of U.S.-based General Electric and Pratt & Whitney) instead of the Rolls-Royce engines, they will receive...
...Stonecipher spent last Christmas at his St. Petersburg, Fla., home. He wasn't happy about that. Angered because key airlines like AirAsia and Air Berlin were buying rival Airbus planes, all too aware that the European manufacturer would soon be rolling out its new 555-seat, double-decker A380 jumbo liner, Stonecipher had told his salespeople he would travel anywhere in the world, even on Christmas Day, if he was needed to close a deal. Yet no one called. "The whole idea is that I will go anywhere for them," he says...