One largely unreported story from Dubai is beginning to gain a bit of clarity:
Green aircraft to replace 737
By Ivan Gale, Staff Reporter
Gulfnews.comIn the next 18 months, Boeing expects to arrive at a design template for the 737 replacement, with “notional entry into service” around the middle of the next decade.
“The technology to create an airplane that could economically obsolete the 737 and Airbus 320 class of airplanes looks to us to be around 2015, give or take,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief executive Scott Carson told Gulf News.
So how much business is at stake over the next twenty years in the single aisle market? Both Airbus and Boeing agree that there is no less than $1 trillion available between now and 2026. If you average delivery forecast from both manufacturers you have more than 16,000 new single aisle aircraft rolling off the assembly lines in the next two decades.
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