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Japan Airlines Is in No Hurry to Order Boeing's 7E7 Jet.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2003

By David Bowermaster, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 15--Japan Airlines remains undecided about Boeing's 7E7 and is not prepared to make a public commitment to order the new jet, a spokesman for the carrier said yesterday from Tokyo.

The news will come as a disappointment at Boeing headquarters in Chicago, where the company's board of directors is expected to vote today on whether to authorize development of the proposed 200- to 250-seat airplane.

"The 7E7 will feature new technology that needs to be developed and tested, and we will resume our studies of this aircraft when the time is right," said Geoffrey Tudor, spokesman for the carrier, Japan's largest airline. "We don't know exactly when that will be."...

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