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Stitch
It was only about four weeks ago that JQ and Boeing agreed to take delivery of their first Second Tranche (improved) 787-8s starting in May 2010, but it appears swine flu had decimated JQ's traffic numbers and now they can't fill the planes.

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Qantas group is in negotiations with Boeing to delay delivery of Boeing 787s on order. Low-cost carrier Jetstar is to be the first airline in the group to receive 787s with the first due in May 2010...But Qantas CEO, Alan Joyce, says the group has instigated negotiations with Boeing in an effort to delay first deliveries...Joyce says of all the airlines in the group Jetstar has been the mostly adversely affected by the swine flu outbreak.
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Aurora
So much for all that "compensation" money that Qantas was going to rake in from Boeing....
keesje
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Qantas CEO, Alan Joyce, says the group has instigated negotiations with Boeing in an effort to delay first deliveries.


Industrywide development. Cash is king. Apart from that 787 customers prefer to get mature Dreamliners from later batches.
BOEING777
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