{"id":15953,"date":"2009-12-08T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/united-airlines-orders-boeing-airbus-planes\/"},"modified":"2009-12-08T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T09:36:00","slug":"united-airlines-orders-boeing-airbus-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/united-airlines-orders-boeing-airbus-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Orders Boeing &#038; Airbus Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2009\/12\/united.jpg\" alt=\"New United planes are expected within the next 10 years (Picture courtesy of Flickr member cliff1066)\" title=\"New United planes are expected within the next 10 years (Picture courtesy of Flickr member cliff1066)\" width=\"430\" height=\"330\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<strong>United has ordered 50 new planes from both Boeing and Airbus <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnited Airlines said Tuesday it plans to buy its first new jets in over 11 years. The carrier has placed 50 orders, splitting it between Airbus and Boeing, and expects the new fleet to be rolling down the runway between 2016 and 2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe price tag for this purchase? A mere $10 billion! United ordered 25 of the long anticipated Boeing 787 widebody jet and 25 of the Airbus A350.<br \/>\nUnited has not commented on how they will pay for these planes, but it is expected that the manufacturers will provide loans if needed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis would be the first time that United purchased new jetliners from a company other than Boeing. The third-biggest U.S. airline stated that the new planes will reduce fuel burn and environmental impact. In addition, United expects to expand service to more international locations as these babies arrive over the next decade.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source Associated Press<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Picture courtesy of Flickr member <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/nostri-imago\/\" target=\"_blank\">cliff1066 <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;United has ordered 50 new planes from both Boeing and Airbus &nbsp; United Airlines said Tuesday it plans to buy its first new jets in over 11 years. The carrier has placed 50 orders, splitting it between Airbus and Boeing, and expects the new fleet to be rolling down the runway between 2016 and 2019. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}