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Qantas Signs Contract for First Boeing 787 Dreamliners
Qantas Airways and The Boeing Company today signed a contract for 65 firm and option 787 Dreamliners, the first of what could be an eventual fleet of up to 115.
Today’s signing ceremony was a highlight of celebrations to mark the airline’s Sydney-San Francisco inaugural flight, and attended by Alan Mulally, President of Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Peter Gregg, Chief Financial Officer of Qantas.
At the signing, the Hon. Andrew Peacock, AC, President of Boeing Australia said:
“Not only did Qantas pick the best airplane for renewal and expansion of its mid-size fleet, but it also has done the right thing by Australian jobs and the Victorian economy.
“We expect the entire 787 program to generate at least $A4 billion in exports from Australia through the life of the program, and support more than 250 Australian jobs when full rate production is achieved at Hawker de Havilland’s Melbourne plant.”
Hawker de Havilland won a place on the 787 team as a tier one supplier charged with designing and building trailing edge control surfaces for the 787. These components include the flaps, ailerons and spoilers.
“The 787 research and development Hawker is doing in Melbourne is first class on a global scale and will greatly boost the company’s chances of attracting other large scale aerospace contracts to Australia,” Peacock added.
The Qantas deal, announced by Chief Executive Geoff Dixon last December 14, is for 45 firm orders, 20 options and 50 purchase rights. The first four 787-8s will be delivered in 2008 for the new Jetstar international low-cost operation, with another 28 787s to follow by the end of 2011.
The Dreamliners will replace Qantas’ mid-size mid-range fleets. The firm order is split between the 787-8 and 787-9.
The firm orders are worth about A$7.6 billion (US$5.8 billion) at list prices.
Jetstar’s initial international route structure would require 10 aircraft on point-to-point routes between Australia and Asian and Pacific cities, complementing Qantas’ mainline international operations.
Qantas has yet to choose between the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 and GE Aircraft Engines GEnx powerplants.
Graham Muldoon
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