747 Advanced … well, advances

Published 9:00 pm Tuesday, July 5, 2005

As I noted in today’s Herald (on sale for a bargain 35 cents at newstands and finer retail establishments throughout Snohomish and Island counties), there’s an increasing sense out there that Boeing’s about ready to launch the 747 Advanced.

Last week, Financial Times Duechland reported that the Boeing board has already agreed in principal, as long as the sales team can come up with some major orders.

Here’s the original in German:

http://www.ftd.de/ub/in/12637.html

And a Google machine translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ftd.de%2Fub%2Fin%2F12637.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Hope that link works for you guys. If not, here’s the key quote, in all its idiomatic glory: “Four airlines announced serious interest to the 747 Advanced. Among them three Asiatic enterprises are to be. In Europe the development is pursued by the Luxemberger freight airline Cargolux and Lufthansa with interest.”

Here also is a transcript of Jim McNerney’s first press conference from last week (thanks to Scott Hamilton at Leeham Co.), in which the new boss talks up the proposed upgrade:

http://www.leeham.net/filelib/McNeareyConfCall.pdf

And here’s links to both my 747 story, and my column:

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/07/06/100bus_boeing001.cfm

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/07/06/100bus_corliss001.cfm