=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/news/archive/2004/07/26/f= inancial2048EDT0349.DTL --------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, July 26, 2004 (AP) All Nippon CEO details plans for 7E7 deliveries ALLISON LINN, AP Business Writer (07-26) 17:48 PDT SEATTLE (AP) -- All Nippon Airways' 50-plane order for Boeing Co.'s planned new 7E7 airplane will include 20 of the longer range 7E7-8 models and 30 of the shorter range 7E7-3 models, the head of the airline said Monday. Yoji Ohashi, president and chief executive of All Nippon, told reporters that the Japanese airline hopes to take delivery of the first six of the 7E7-8s in the airline's fiscal year beginning in April 2008. It will take delivery of another six of the 7E7-8 models in the following fiscal year, he said, and will begin receiving the 7E7-3 models the year after that. Ohashi was in Seattle to sign the contract making the firm order for the 7E7s official. The twin-aisle airplane, which Boeing is still developing, promises to be more fuel-efficient than comparable planes flying today, thanks in part to significant use of composite materials. All Nippon earlier this year was the first airline to order the plane. The 7E7-8 seats 217 passengers in three classes and can fly nearly 9,800 miles. Ohashi said that airplane will primarily be used for international routes. The 7E7-3, which seats 289 passengers in two classes and has a range of about 4,000 miles, will be primarily used for domestic routes, he said. Boeing also is developing a stretch version of the 7E7, but that model is not due out until around 2012. Speaking through a translator, Ohashi said All Nippon had not yet chosen between General Electric Co. and Rolls Royce Group PLC for its 7E7 engines, but hoped to do so by November. The 7E7s are meant to replace the airline's existing Boeing 767s. But Ohashi said the airline does not intend to cancel its plans to take delivery of the eight remaining 767s it has on order -- although he noted that some of those 767s could eventually be used for cargo instead of passengers. He said the airline, which currently flies the larger Boeing 747-400s and 777s, may also consider moving to just one of those airplane models in the future -- most likely the 777. He said All Nippon also might consider rival Airbus' A380 jumbo jet in the future, but is not considering it right now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2004 AP