Boeing confirms it conducted a functional check flight on the third 777-9 test aircraft on Jan. 16, setting the stage for a return to flight for the aircraft’s delayed certification program.

The 777X is the successor to Boeing's 777, one of the most commercially successful long-haul airliners. The company initially planned to deliver the first 777X to launch customer Qatar Airways in ...

Boeing (NYSE: BA) is one of the world's leading aerospace companies, known for its commercial airplanes, defense systems and space technologies. However, the company has faced a turbulent ride in ...

Also notable is that this new flight will be on one of Emirates’ latest Boeing 777s featuring its new business class. In place of the older 2-2-2 or even worse 2-3-2 business class configuration, the ...

Boeing could restart the flight test program for the 777X soon after grounding its four testing airframes due to an issue with the type’s thrust links in August 2024. None of the four 777-9 test ...

The upcoming functional check flight, expected as early as January 15, 2025, will pave the way for the full resumption of the certification program. SEATTLE-Boeing is set to restart certification ...

Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images Much of the attention around the performance of Airbus and Boeing has been on delivery numbers. Boeing’s self-inflicted dive into low production levels in ...

Airbus had 826 net orders, while Boeing had 317. A strike by the machinists who assemble the 737 Max, along with the 777 jet and the 767 cargo plane at factories in Renton and Everett, Washington, ...

Boeing delivered its final old-model 777 passenger plane in December, a plane that had been in storage since the COVID pandemic hit in 2020. With the 777’s replacement, the 777X, long delayed ...

Boeing had a decent orderbook in December to cap a very bad year. But its deliveries for the month show it continues to struggle to rebound from the crippling strike earlier in the fall. The ...

DUBLIN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab expects to reach a balance between supply and market demand for passenger jets by the end of the decade, an executive said on Monday.