The company also projected the world fleet of freighters to grow from 1, 775 to 3, 078 planes over the next 20 years, mostly in widebody aircraft.
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In addition, US Airways reiterated its plan to buy an unspecified number of widebody aircraft, not yet ordered, which would allow it to continue boosting its transatlantic service.
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Sixty of the Boeing deliveries to be affected will be widebody aircraft such as the 747 jumbo jet, the 767 and the 777, all of which are built in Everett.
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They came back two years later and said they were looking at widebody aircraft, and we were told by the government and the airline that they would make this purely business.
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In Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airways took delivery of one more A330 and another A340-300, boosting its mixed fleet of new generation Airbus Industrie widebody aircraft to 17.
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Although this was a rare event, some TAP Portugal flights currently make scheduled stops at Madeira with Airbus A330-200 widebody aircraft on the Lisbon-Caracas-Lisbon route.
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Swissair officials said the ability to have pilots certified to fly both single-aisle and widebody aircraft will save the airline as much as 20 percent of its flight-crew costs.
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After the success of the early widebody aircraft, several successors came to market over the next two decades, including the Boeing 767 and A340, and the McDonnell Douglas MD-11.
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Some widebody aircraft are used as flying command posts by the military, such as the Boeing E-4, while the Boeing E-767 is used for Airborne Early Warning and Control.
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Airbus Industrie has scored deals to sell widebody aircraft worth more than dlrs 2 billion to the Middle East carrier Emirates Airlines and a big U . S . lending company, aviation sources said Tuesday.
