Despite the delays, Smisek called the wide-body jetliner "a spectacular and game-changing aircraft." ❋ Unknown (2011)
Qatar Airways said it would buy six additional Boeing 777-300 wide-body jets, as the airline continues its rapid growth. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)
Mr. Evrard told reporters at the Paris Air Show that all systems on the wide-body plane will be ready more than one year before the first test flight, to give Airbus ample time for testing them. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)
Chicago-based Boeing, which beat European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co., or EADS, to secure the contract last February, had promised the tanker deal would support more jobs at the plant and among outside suppliers in Kansas as it converted wide-body 767 jets into tankers. ❋ David Kesmodel (2012)
LE BOURGET, France—Middle East carrier Qatar Airways said on Monday it would buy six additional Boeing Co. 777-300 wide-body jets, as the airline continues its rapid growth. ❋ Peter Sanders (2011)
Starting around 2007, the FAA ordered airlines to change high-altitude flight procedures and install new software on about 1,200 wide-body jetliners world-wide, including Boeing Inc.'s 747 jumbo jets. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)
The spokeswoman said Boeing still expects to increase its output of the jet to 10 per month by late 2013—a pace never reached in the industry for a wide-body aircraft—compared with about 2.5 a month today. ❋ David Kesmodel (2011)
Then Koo-Koo, who was sitting under a tree with the water buffalo, got up and moved closer to us when we started talking about her wide-body girth. ❋ Olga Bonfiglio (2010)
The Hong Kong-based blue-chip airline, which is controlled by conglomerate Swire Pacific Ltd., said in a statement it ordered six A350-900 wide-body long-haul aircraft, which will mainly serve destinations in Europe. ❋ Joanne Chiu (2012)
EADS said it expects the wide-body A350 XWB jet to enter service with airlines in the first half of 2014 instead of the end of 2013 as planned previously and the charge will cover compensation to customers, Chief Financial Officer Hans Peter Ring said in a conference call. ❋ David Pearson (2011)
Air Lease Corp., which is run by former ILFC chief Steve Udvar-Hazy , made its first order for wide-body aircraft, as part of a 33-plane Boeing commitment that includes 737s, 777s and the forthcoming 787 Dreamliner. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)
The company plans by late 2013 to assemble three of the wide-body Dreamliners a month at the plant, and seven per month at the Everett, Wash., facility that has been assembling the jets since 2007. ❋ David Kesmodel (2011)
The wide-body jet, beset with production and design issues, has cost the company billions of dollars in overruns and forced it to compensate airlines for delays. ❋ David Kesmodel (2011)
Factors such as geography, availability of cash, access to funding, and new fleets of wide-body fuel efficient aircraft have allowed state-owned Gulf carriers to grow quickly and compete with the U.S. and European legacy carriers on long-haul flights to Asia and North America, at a time when demand for regional passenger air travel in the Middle East also continues to rise, if at a slower pace. ❋ Alex Delmar-Morgan (2011)
[I need] [to lose weight] before I start looking like a [wide body]! ❋ Freddie Scott7 (2011)
[lets go] to the [buffet] and find us a [wide body] ❋ Freddie Scott! (2010)
Well, [Joe], [looks like] were on a wide body [flight] today. ❋ J B McDuffie (2007)
"I got a Thicc Industries [wide body kit] for ya car!"
"Fuck off Jibick, you put airplane fuel in my Tesla and hacked my [GPS] to only display furry [ancom] porn." ❋ Sugoma God (2022)
[Damn dude] look at the [wide body] over there!
Yeah man she’s a [big ole] wide body! ❋ Taco Pocket (2018)
