Emirates Rejects First Boeing 777Xs: "Turn Them Into Baked Bean Cans"
Emirates said the early jets would need extensive retrofits after years of design changes and delays, as Boeing seeks homes for the aircraft.
- Emirates President Sir Tim Clark announced the airline will refuse delivery of 10 Boeing 777X aircraft due to extensive design modifications that render the early production models unfeasible for fleet standards.
- Repeated design changes and static-test failures have pushed the 777X program seven years behind schedule, prompting the carrier to reject the initial batch to avoid acquiring what industry observers fear could become 'lemons.'
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes head Stephanie Pope noted modifications occurred 'as the maturity of the design progresses,' while Clark suggested the rejected frames are so outdated they should be turned into 'baked bean cans.'
- The Air Current reported one early 777X plane was quietly disassembled in 2025 after sitting dormant for six years, leaving an uncertain future for the remaining nine aircraft in the initial batch.
- Emirates remains heavily reliant on the 777X for fleet renewal, with Clark expecting the first operational delivery in the second quarter of 2027, provided the model completes certification and meets long-distance flight requirements.
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Emirates Rejects First Boeing 777Xs: "Turn Them Into Baked Bean Cans"
There’s no airline more reliant on the Boeing 777X than Emirates, as the airline has 270 of these planes on order, and is counting on them for its fleet renewal, to eventually replace the Airbus A380. The issue, of course, is how much this plane has been delayed, as it was initially supposed to be delivered as of 2020, and now we’re looking at 2027 at the earliest.Along those lines, Emirates President Tim Clark has had some more choice words for…
Emirates refuses to take delivery of 10 Boeing 777X jets after years of delays
Emirates has refused to take delivery of the first batch of 10 Boeing 777X jets, in the latest setback for Boeing, after the airline's president, Sir Tim Clarke, said the planes that had been delayed for years were unusable, and joked that they were "only fit for conversion into cans of cooked beans".Speaking to the Daily Telegraph on the sidelines of the Farnborough International Airshow, Clarke said Emirates would not receive the batch "defini…
Sydney Morning Herald
‘Baked bean cans’: Emirates boss to reject Boeing planes
Boeing has been dealt a fresh blow after Emirates said it would refuse to take delivery of 10 aircraft, claiming that the much-delayed $629 million 777x jets would be better off being sent to Heinz.
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