Winging It

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Nuff Said About R2-D2 Another 787-9 Gets its Chops

Its a Disney-ANA credit and a wrap.

Boeing U-Tube Demo Animation

Boeing's New Single Aisle Luggage Trough Attracks Travelers

Boeing is making its over head bins 50% larger. Yeah goes middle seat contemporaries. Hooray for business appointments juggernauts. Carry-on the overnight business suite of backpacks brief cases and Bin Luggage. Roll up your shirts, pack it and strike up the toothpaste. You can fly business junkie in the new and improved Boeing overhead Bin. Am I on a 787? Count the seats in your row before you sit down to make sure its okay. 1-2-3-4-5-6, yeah this is the new Max.

If the old Overhead bin only holds four carry-on bag stuffing, fifty percent bigger means space for an additional 2 carry-on. Holy-moly, is the 737 Max stretched longer down the length of the aircraft for six old bags per bin? Or will there be some overlapping Bins into the next Row?

Here is my own Overhead-Bin Schematic during passenger loading. I am the first luggage pig on the left at the trough.

Photo Credit: http://onthefarm.e2bn.org/littlefarm/library/1169628412/100_6563.jpg

Boeing will be upset with my six -eight pig trough schematic, so I will move to the actual photo of the Boeing schematic in concept mode.

Boeing Photo Credit

Hah-Hah, I was right about the bin space overlapping the rows within the confines of a seating/cabin space available. When one bin fills-up from "the luggage pigs", Boeing thinks the next bin which may be overlapping into your row will be available. In a perfect world, yes. This may be an enticement for a bigger problem! A passenger sees an opportunity, The passenger savvy pigs may adjust, since many may want to carry more stuff on, and push respectable person's who is loading late at the trough (me always), luggage goes back into baggage check status and onto terminal hell found at the destinations. The problem is with the airlines, who should only allow a passengers one carry on. Where so many additional items such as backpacks, purses and accessory cases slip past the "Bah, Bye" lead flight attendant during passenger loading.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Copa, Hainan is sloughed into Boeing's Order Book Hand (Corrected)!!!

Recent confirmed orders have not shown on Boeing's order book on its website.

Here is the Boeing Book on April 15, 2015. I have taken the liberty of showing what Boeing hasn't updated in its order books. Edited numbers on Boeing chart below show in bold blue colors.

Boeing will wait until all participants are in alignment with a sales transaction and may even go unidentified on its listing already. However for posterity sake I have added them in just the same. Hainan has a split lease buy deal. It will lease 6 787-9 from a lessor and buy 24 787-9 directly from Boeing. A future line item will show up from a lessor for 6, 787-9. So you see there is more pen, ink and paper to go before the 787-9 orders is recognized on the books. Thirty-two unidentified 787 are suspicious. If Hainan and its lessor are the unidentified 787's then the book will go back by 30 units and become a total order book of 172 instead of the 202 I projected.

Secondly, Copa has announced the Max deal with a combination of Max single aisle aircraft. No details have been disclosed at this time by the press. So I will assume the details are not finalized and its a no show on Boeing books until its all settled by its customer for its 61 Max reported sold. Below is temporary look at the order book during my spring madness. More orders are in Boeing slough-off mode and remain hidden from reporting. A rumor exist of 6 more 787 not reported yet, because the Deal is not final. It might also be through a leasing company as well. It gets complicated until Boeing announces. I am patient, but its good to know the year has started strong after last year's amazing ordering year. The year won't be amazing, but it will become very interesting within the world of airplane market place with more significant orders to come.

2015 Net Orders

110

Customers	737	747	767	777	787	Total
Alaska Airlines	6	-	-	-	-	6
All Nippon Airways Copa	5 61	-	-	-	3	8 61
GECAS	2	-	-	-	-	2
Hainan Korean Airlines	-	-	-	5	30	30 5
Ryanair	3	-	-	-	-	3
Silk Way Airlines	-	3	-	-	-	3
Unidentified Customer(s)	55	-	-	2	32	89
2015 Gross Orders	132	3	-	7	65	207
Changes	-5	-	-	-	-1	-6
2015 Net Orders	127	3	-	7	64	202

Boy oh Boy oh boy, I blew it! The 51 of 55 unidentified 737 were Copa's and Hainan's must be in the 32 unidentified 787's. Boeing has updated its table below. Thinking so hard to do most days!

April 16th 2015 Boeing Update: