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EVERETT, WA – Boeing and Royal Jordanian today celebrated the delivery of the airline’s first 787 Dreamliner. EVERETT, WA – Boeing and Royal Jordanian today celebrated the delivery of the airline’s first 787 Dreamliner. The airplane will play a central role in the Amman-based airline’s strategic plan for fleet modernization. Royal Jordanian acquired this airplane through leasing company AerCap. “We are delighted to receive our first 787 which will not only revolutionize the infligh...

FORT WORTH, TX – American Airlines today officially welcomes its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner. American took delivery of the airplane, a 787-8 with registration number N800AN, on Thursday at Boeing’s factory in Everett, Washington, and it is scheduled to arrive in Dallas/Fort Worth on Friday afternoon. “We are committed to delivering a fantastic product for our customers with the continuation of our unprecedented fleet renewal program and more than $2 billion in improvements in the custome...

sooner rather than later. gold and oil also staged dramatic sell-offs. pepsi is going for a sales pop by changing its pricing stratgey. the soda-maker wants to break consumers habit of only buying soft drinks when on sale. the sec is charging south miami with misleading investors on the status of its municipal bonds. the city will settle the charges. triple predicts a memorial day travel dip. the number of motorists will drop by nearly 1%, while air travel declines 8% as fliers are bec...

a lot of investors are now pointing to germany reiterating staunch opposition to common bonds after german chancellor angela merkel said issuance of bonds like this will not occur, quote, as long as i live. back here in the united states, a couple of economic reports of note today. at 8:30 eastern time we get may durable goods. then coming up at 10:00, pending home sales. right now lets get over to brian and some of the morning top corporate headlines. >> good morning. thank you very...

here as we got near final figures on the dow. i know im speaking, the dow is up 33 -- hello there, yes, im wearing my microphone again. we had been up about 70 points. the nasdaq is up 17 and the s&p just up over 6 points. this is near final figures. the markets may have seen modest gains today, but have we seen a bottom of sorts yet. just a few months of trading left for the quarter and the first half of the year. they have tacked on major gains recently. one of our next guests says t...

Start to see what the demand is for our aircraft, were going to need so much more as we move forward. >> listen, ray, thank you for hosting us here and thank you for educating us. >> thank you. good to see you. >> ray conout at boeing. the decline in manufacturing is reflected in the changing demographic of the american workers, as we were just discussing. less than 9% of americans now work in manufacturing, a decline of 8.1 million during the last three decades. manufacturing now in fact repres...

movement, and showing new sectors of the industry that arent just surviving, theyre thriving. "steel on wheels" its all aboard to seattle. and the show starts right now. well, good afternoon to you live from the kickoff of our third steel on wheels tour. welcome to the future of flight aviation center right outside of seattle and adjacent to the dreamliner campus for boeing. the 787 being assembled just outside these doors. nice to see you. i am dylan ratigan. this area home to boeing,...

Into our own country, a currency 50 cents cheaper than our own dollar. well, impressively companies like boeing and nucor have been able to achieve success. our first guest here today in the great state of washington is boeing vice president of supply chain and management, ray conner. ray, its a pleasure to see. >> nice to see you. >> you started as a mechanic. >> thats correct. >> if you look at the business of assembling this plane, you took a bunch of jobs that were here out, brought them bac...