Dreamliner 737 for Southwest?

[XRMEFLYER]

You believe everything your VP of Ops tells you? Did he also tell you that Santa is alive and well? What a loser.

And you're a dick.

 

[c9skytrain]

It is pretty much conceded that new engine technology will not be ready until about 2017. If you read Aviation week and Space Technology, it is mentioned probably once every other week.

 

[Bill Nelson]

Kinda weird, the 787 has engines, but then again it probably won't ever fly. Hybrids were in production in less than a year when oil shot up.

The 737 replacement will be ready when SWA says it will be ready.

 

[ivauir]

Kinda weird, the 787 has engines...

They are way too big for a 737 size airplane. The required leap in technology is that kind of efficiency in a smaller engine.

 

[JimNtexas]

In a recent issue of Aviation Week they interviewed Steve Udvar-Hazy, the mogul of airliner leasing.

He said that SWA wanted a twin-aisle 787 based replacement for the B737.

He also said that Airbus had a big problem in that they can't build a fully composite fuselage because Boeing had enough patents to lockup that type of design.

 

[Schiphol]

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Y1

And this: http://www.geae.com/aboutgeae/presscenter/other/other_20060717.html

 

[shiznitobam]

This may be the a/c NWA is waiting for to replace the 9.

Everyone knows that NWA is going to replace the 9 with midwest's 717's

The all-cash offer from Fort Worth, Texas-based TPG Capital, backed by a minority investment from Northwest Airlines Corp.,

It's not rocket surgery.

 

[a320drivr]

The engine is there. The geared turbofan.

 

[BVT94]

The real problem is trying to figure out how to put round dials in such an advanced cockpit.

 

[getonit]

They are way too big for a 737 size airplane. The required leap in technology is that kind of efficiency in a smaller engine.

Maybe it will just have one engine, right in the middle?