Emirates Plans To Reject Early-Build Boeing 777-9s

777X airframe under work

Boeing is establishing a separate line to update early-build 777-9s to the latest production standard.

Credit: Guy Norris/AW&ST
Emirates Airline, the largest single customer for the Boeing 777-9, says it will refuse to take delivery of the first 10 airframes because of the extensive rework needed to bring them up to current standards. “We are not taking them,” President Tim Clark said on the sidelines at the Farnborough...
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