Boeing Customer Says 777X Sales Won’t Start This Year
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Boeing Co. 777 customer Etihad Airways PJSC said it doesn’t expect sales of an upgraded version of the model to begin this year as planned, and the planemaker’s chief said 787 battery woes have slowed development work.
Etihad Chief Executive Officer James Hogan also wouldn’t say whether he still expects the 777X, as the new variant is called, to enter service at the end of the decade, as Chicago-based Boeing has been promising.