American Airlines Orders 42 Boeing 787
FORT WORTH (AP) - The largest U.S. airline American Airlines, AMR Corporation, bought from U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing in a billion-euro contract up to 100 machines of the long-haul jets 787th The list is a total of around 20 billion U.S. dollars (14.8 billion euros). The first, firmly ordered 42 machines of the type 787-9 will be from 2012 to 2018 are delivered, American Airlines announced on Wednesday in Fort Worth (Texas) with.
In addition, the company agreed an option to purchase another 58 aircraft in the years 2015 to 2020. The 787 is equipped with around 900 orders so far the most successful airplane in Boeing’s history. The rival Airbus is struggling but with significant delays and is already far more than a year behind the original schedule. Currently, a strike for additional problems. With the new machines, American Airlines wants its fleet given high fuel prices significantly modernize. The Boeing 787-9 is reportedly capable of accommodating up to 290 passengers.
American Airlines operating at a loss again
The parent company of American Airlines, AMR Corporation, has become the third quarter thanks to a special effect just in the black figures rescued. Without the one-time gain from selling a business the company flew again, however, a loss of 360 million U.S. dollars this one. Fuel costs alone were compared with the previous year to 1.1 billion U.S. dollars increased, gave AMR on Wednesday in Forth Worth (Texas) known.
Sales rose in the third quarter by 8 percent to 6.4 (4.7 billion euros) billion dollars. The bottom line was due to the one-time gain a small increase of 45 million U.S. dollars after 175 million U.S. dollars a year earlier. In the first half of 2008 wrote AMR as well as other traditional U.S. airlines deep red numbers. The airlines currently reduce their route offerings and build bodies.
U.S. airline industry reports deep figures
HOUSTON / FORT WORTH (AP) - The major U.S. airlines continued to fly deep into the red figures. The parent company of the former Industries First American Airlines, AMR Corporation, made in the second quarter of a loss of 1.4 billion U.S. dollars when Delta Air Lines remained under the bar a minus of 1.0 billion dollars. Delta is close to the merger with the smaller Northwest Air Lines to the then new world’s largest supplier after passenger numbers.
American airline industry in a serious crisis
NEW YORK- Stagnating passenger numbers and persistently high prices for aviation fuel have in the first half of 2008 verheerend on the business figures of the American airline industry impact. A recent study says a new wave of insolvency in the aviation sector ahead at the end of which is not successfully completed creditor protection proceedings under Chapter 11, but company to Chapter 7 resolutions are.
By the end of this year and 2009, according to Airline Forecasts and the Business Travel Coalition study carried out in a Verharren of the crude oil price to 130 U.S. dollars per barrel medium and large U.S. airlines their creditors can no longer satisfy. “The American Airlines see with increasing concern how their cash move to zero”, the paper describes the situation.
A judicially supervised Reorganize of business processes in the eleventh section of the U.S. bankruptcy law, as several U.S. airlines after the 11 to September 2001 following sectors perceived crisis, this is not expected. “The airlines have almost all the leeway to reduce costs already exhausted,” said Branch of the Association of American Airlines ATA. The sector faces “fundamental business problems.”
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