Boeing 747-400

ABSTRACT This Term Paper is all about the review of the book ‘21st CENTURY JET, THE MAKING OF THE BOEING 777’ by ‘Karl Sabbagh’. It includes the comments regarding how the decision of making a new plane emerged and how it determined the market status of Boeing in the Airliner field. This paper mainly focused on the history and introduction of Boeing 777 to airlines and its manufacturing process through its logistics and supply chain network and also specified the supply chain practices used in…

According to the industry group Airlines for America, 14.2 million people are expected to travel during the 2015 Labor holiday weekend. With that number increasingly on the rise, air travel is booming and has just piqued business titan Warren Buffett’s interests. Warren Buffett’s illustrious Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has recently acquired Precision Castparts in an estimated 32 billion dollar deal that can only be written in the stars. In what is said to be the company’s largest merger,…

Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) is adjacent to the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach Campus. Daytona Beach International Airport is a county owned airport three miles southwest of the beach next to Daytona International Speedway, in Volusia County Florida. Before airplanes landed on the beach, automobiles raced. The beach was a relatively clean surface for anything that had wheels and speed, and also had a smooth and hard surface. Pilots then caught on to the idea and…

repeatedly because business circumstances change. For Boeing, a change of this nature could be a different political party in power that wants to grow its military base or develop new technologies for space exploration. Whatever the change, Boeing must use the planning function of management and steps to ascertain what direction the company should take. Different types of planning are performed by managers of different levels (Bateman & Snell, 2009). The Boeing senior top-level executives with…

Airbus Group (formerly EADS) is one of the world’s leading Aerospace and Defence corporations. Born from the merger, on July 2000, of the French company Aerospatiale Matra, its German competitor DASA and its Spanish pair CASA, the group has managed to develop a strong expertise in a large range of complementary businesses, such as commercial aircraft, military and defence equipment, helicopters, communication systems, missiles, satellites and related services. Reorganised in January 2014, the…

the two companies worked together they wouldn’t have to fiercely compete with each other and reap the benefits by not offering steep discounts (Dubois, 2013). Boeing and Airbus utilize frontal attacks on each other that incorporates similar products, price, and distribution. Both companies use the same distribution supplier, even though Boeing gets more orders than Airbus, both companies have the same number of deliverables to their…

It was the year 1970 and I was 30 at the time. I was a member of the 14th Military Airlift Squadron. I had been assigned to the 63rd Military Airlift Squadron at Norton Air Force Base in California. I had served as an aircraft commander, navigator in the C 130, and had spent a year in Vietnam. Upon return, I was assigned to the C141, or Starlifter. The C141 has a gross weight of 325,000 pounds. At that weight, the airplane does not move without advancing throttle, so you know it is heavy. I was…

commissioned to Pan American Airlines. Pan American went to Boeing and asked for a long-range, four-engine flying boat. Boeing catered to their needs creating the model 314, nicknamed the “Clipper” after oceanic ships. The Boeing 314 “Clipper” was a jumbo aircraft of it’s time and utilized a three tail-fin assembly allowing more control over the flying boat. The “Clipper” made its first scheduled trans-Atlantic flight on June 28th, 1939. The Boeing 314 “Clipper” was the choice of wealthy…

Air Asia is the biggest airline company in Malaysia which have fleet size and destination. According to the history of Air Asia in Jump Start Malaysia: The Air Asia Definitive Guide to Malaysia, Truly Asia, the company established in year 1993 and begins to operate since 1996 to present. It was founded by government owned conglomerate; DRB Hicom. Unfortunately, in 2001, the company was heavily in debt. It was then bought by the former Time Warner executive; Tony Fernandes who owned the Tune Air…

These days many people argue about the best aircraft in the world, there are two aircrafts that people argue about first A380 from airbus family and the other one B747 from boeing family , each one of them has its advantages and disadvantages . However airbus 380 and Boeing 747 are the largest commercial aircrafts but there are similarities and differences between them. In this paper I am going to examine which aircraft is better A380 or B747. In order to do this I will present two main…