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Virgin Atlantic has ordered 15 Boeing 787-9 aircraft, placed options on another eight and has secured purchase rights for 20 more.

Deliveries of the aircraft are expected to take place from 2011 and will replace Virgin's Airbus A340-300s.

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Thats great news!!!

And I see on the 25th Air Canada ordered another 25, crikey, this aircraft could get to 600 orders before it even flies

I am a Boeing man but lets hope this doesn't end up like the Comet did

(great on paper rubbish in the air)

scon wrote: I am a Boeing man but lets hope this doesn't end up like the Comet did

(great on paper rubbish in the air)

We've got 50-odd years of designing and building high speed pressurised jet turbine aircraft to build on now; the people who built the Comet were essentially pioneering a new technology, so their job was harder in that respect.

big coup for Boeing given Virgin's European ties

Zöltuger wrote: big coup for Boeing given Virgin's European ties

Indeed, I think the A380 issues, along with the A350 fiasco initially may have made a bigger dent in confidence in irbus than first thought.