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American Airlines expands its Boeing 777-300ER orders
ByTerry Maxon/Reporter
Dallas News
Wed., Oct. 19, 2011
Every time that American Airlines files another quarterly disclosure, we seem to find out about another Boeing 777-300ER being ordered.
As of Wednesday, the number has grown to nine for the long-haul international airplanes, which will be the biggest airplanes in American's fleet when they begin arriving in about a year.
The current order book shows two 777-300ERs for late 2012 delivery and seven scheduled to arrive in 2013. These are for purchase, rather than for Boeing-provided leases as was in the case for the first half of the big 200-plane Boeing 737-800 order that was announced in July.
Here's how the order book has grown for the 777-300ERs since we first learned that American had placed an initial order in January:
Jan. 19: AMR announces it has ordered two Boeing 777-300ERs.
March 22: AMR reveals it had now ordered three.
April 20: Order grows to five.
July 20: AMR says it has exercised option on three more, giving it eight.
Oct. 19: AMR says it has changed an option for a smaller, cheaper 777-200ER into a firm order for a 777-300ER, raising the number of -300ERs to nine.
We can't wait until the 10-K comes out in early 2012 to see how many more AMR has ordered between now and then.
List price is $298.3 million per airplane, in case you're in the market.
Bye Bye----General Lee
ByTerry Maxon/Reporter
Dallas News
Wed., Oct. 19, 2011
Every time that American Airlines files another quarterly disclosure, we seem to find out about another Boeing 777-300ER being ordered.
As of Wednesday, the number has grown to nine for the long-haul international airplanes, which will be the biggest airplanes in American's fleet when they begin arriving in about a year.
The current order book shows two 777-300ERs for late 2012 delivery and seven scheduled to arrive in 2013. These are for purchase, rather than for Boeing-provided leases as was in the case for the first half of the big 200-plane Boeing 737-800 order that was announced in July.
Here's how the order book has grown for the 777-300ERs since we first learned that American had placed an initial order in January:
Jan. 19: AMR announces it has ordered two Boeing 777-300ERs.
March 22: AMR reveals it had now ordered three.
April 20: Order grows to five.
July 20: AMR says it has exercised option on three more, giving it eight.
Oct. 19: AMR says it has changed an option for a smaller, cheaper 777-200ER into a firm order for a 777-300ER, raising the number of -300ERs to nine.
We can't wait until the 10-K comes out in early 2012 to see how many more AMR has ordered between now and then.
List price is $298.3 million per airplane, in case you're in the market.
Bye Bye----General Lee
