FARNBOROUGH, July 21 (Reuters) – Emirates expects Boeing’s 777-9 aircraft to be delivered in the second quarter of next year, the airline’s President Tim Clark told journalists on Tuesday, as the delayed widebody jet moves closer to certification.
“We should have had the planes in April 2020,” Clark said, adding that it is “a stretch” to add them to the fleet in 2027.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration told Reuters on Monday that it expected the aircraft to be certified late this year or early next year.
(Reporting by Joanna Plucińska and David Shepardson, writing by Maria Rugamer and Louise Heavens)
