Poles to pick 787

That’s what Reuters is reporting, anyway. An unnamed source tells the news service that LOT will announce an order for six 787s on Friday.

Key quote: “The final decision is not made yet, but until now the decision process was heading in this direction.”

http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/05/news/international/poland_boeing.reut/

And here’s a link to the Warsaw Business Journal, which provides an English-language summary of the original story, which appeared in the journal Rzeczpospolita. Of note here: Rzeczpospolita says that Britain’s Tony Blair, Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder and France’s Jacque Chirac all pressured the Poles to pick Airbus A330s instead.

http://www.wbj.pl/?command=article&id=26670