{"id":6587638,"date":"2026-07-21T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/emirates-refuses-ten-boeing-777x-farnborough-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:14:24","slug":"emirates-refuses-ten-boeing-777x-farnborough-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/emirates-refuses-ten-boeing-777x-farnborough-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Them Into Bean Tins, Says Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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They have waited so long, and the design has changed so much around them, that bringing them up to current standard no longer makes sense.<\/p>\r\n<p>Asked what Boeing should do with them instead, he had a suggestion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f5f5f5; padding: 20px 24px; margin: 24px 0; border-radius: 8px;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px; color: #222;\">Quick Facts<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.6;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 12px 5px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Who<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 0; color: #222;\">Sir Tim Clark, President of Emirates Airline<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 12px 5px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>What<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 0; color: #222;\">Emirates will refuse delivery of the first ten Boeing 777-9s built for it<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 12px 5px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>When<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 0; color: #222;\">Said at the Farnborough International Airshow on 20 July 2026, in an interview with The Telegraph<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 12px 5px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>The order<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 0; color: #222;\">Emirates has 270 777X on order \u2014 by a wide margin the largest order for the type<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 12px 5px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>The delay<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 0; color: #222;\">Entry into service has slipped from 2020 to 2027 at the earliest. Clark first walked aboard a fully configured aircraft in 2019<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 12px 5px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>First operator<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 0; color: #222;\">Lufthansa, expected in 2027. The Telegraph reports before the end of that year; Lufthansa has pointed at the first quarter<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 12px 5px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Already scrapped<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 5px 0; color: #222;\">One 777-9 painted in Emirates livery in 2019 never flew at all and was disassembled in late summer 2025<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">\u201cHeinz would be interested\u201d<\/h2>\r\n<p>Clark's words, given to The Telegraph's Christopher Jasper, were short and entirely unambiguous.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid #d32f2f; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cWe\u2019re not taking that batch and that\u2019s it. As far as we\u2019re concerned, what they do with them is up to them. Heinz would be interested \u2013 baked bean cans\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>Sir Tim Clark<\/strong> \u2014 President, Emirates Airline<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>He also explained why, which is the more substantial part of the story: the aircraft have been modified so heavily since the early flights that the first ones off the line bear diminishing resemblance to what will eventually be certified.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cThe modifications for the airframe have been so significant since the early flights,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd don't forget we had a static-test failure as well.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>That last point is worth pinning down, because it reads as fresh news and is not. Clark is reaching back to September 2019, when a 777X airframe undergoing ground stress testing at Everett failed at around 99 percent of ultimate load. The aluminium skin under the centre fuselage buckled and ruptured, the cabin explosively depressurised, and a passenger door departed the aircraft \u2014 which is why the incident was widely misreported at the time as a door failure. Because the airframe reached 99 percent of requirement, no retest was demanded.<\/p>\r\n<p>Seven years later, Clark is still counting it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px; width: 100%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/boeing-777x-roll-out-ceremony-2019.jpg\" alt=\"Boeing 777X roll-out ceremony in March 2019\" width=\"1024\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The 777X roll-out in March 2019 \u2014 the era of the aircraft Emirates is now refusing. Clark says he walked aboard a fully configured example that year, complete with everything except the first-class cabins. Photo: Dan Nevill \/ CC BY 2.0<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">One of them has already been scrapped<\/h2>\r\n<p>The most striking detail did not come from Farnborough at all. Days before the show, The Air Current reported that Boeing had disassembled a 777-9 known as WH007 \u2014 the seventh built, rolled out of the Everett factory in the summer of 2019 already painted in Emirates colours, with the folding wingtips fitted.<\/p>\r\n<p>It never flew. Not once. It sat at Paine Field for six years while Boeing towed it around to make space for other unfinished 777-9s, and in late summer 2025 the company concluded the economics of reworking it did not add up and took it apart.<\/p>\r\n<p>There is a small, telling consequence. Search the free photo archives for a 777X in Emirates livery and you will not find one, because the only aircraft ever painted that way was scrapped before anybody photographed it in service.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px; width: 100%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/boeing-777-9-dubai-airshow-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Boeing 777-9 in Boeing house colours at the Dubai Airshow 2025\" width=\"1024\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">A 777-9 in Boeing house colours at the Dubai Airshow in November 2025 \u2014 in Emirates\u2019 home city, at the show where the airline added 65 more of them. Photo: Mztourist \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Boeing\u2019s answer<\/h2>\r\n<p>Stephanie Pope, who runs Boeing Commercial Airplanes, did not address the rejection directly. She defended the process that caused it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid #1565c0; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cIf you look at those early airplanes, you\u2019ve then got to weigh how much change it\u2019s going to take and the benefit from that. We are always looking at how much that change is going to cost and what will be the capability of the airplane, and making sure we\u2019re getting the right solution not only for Boeing, but for our customer\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>Stephanie Pope<\/strong> \u2014 President and Chief Executive Officer, Boeing Commercial Airplanes<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>She is not wrong on the engineering. Early production airframes on any programme accumulate differences from the certified configuration, and at some point retrofitting costs more than the aircraft is worth. That is a normal industrial judgement.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is just an unusually expensive one when the aircraft in question lists at several hundred million dollars and your largest customer is describing it in terms of food packaging.<\/p>\r\n<p>Nor is Emirates alone in waiting. Asked at the same show when British Airways would receive the first of its 24 on order, chairman and chief executive Sean Doyle answered: \u201cGood question.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Boeing also has around 25 737 MAX 7s parked and unwanted by Southwest \u2014 which puts something in the order of 34 completed but homeless aircraft across two programmes.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Meanwhile, the show reported a record<\/h2>\r\n<p>The same opening day that produced Clark's baked bean line also produced a headline number: more than \u00a336.2 billion, or about $48.8 billion, in announced commercial aircraft deals, with 234 firm aircraft orders \u2014 a 44 percent increase on day one of the previous show.<\/p>\r\n<p>Two caveats belong with that figure, and they happen to be the same caveats that make Clark's story worth telling.<\/p>\r\n<p>First, the source is not neutral. The number comes from ADS, the UK aerospace trade association, which owns Farnborough International, the company that runs the airshow. It is the organisers' own count.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid #5C91FF; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cToday\u2019s orderbook is a clear signal that confidence in the global aerospace industry remains high, with airlines continuing to invest in the aircraft and technologies that will shape the future of flight\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>Kevin Craven<\/strong> \u2014 Chief Executive of ADS and Chair of Farnborough International<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Second, and more importantly, it is calculated at list prices \u2014 and nobody pays list prices. Widebody discounts of 40 to 50 percent are routine. Emirates' own November 2025 order for 65 more 777-9s was announced at $38 billion, which works out at $585 million per aircraft on paper; reporting on comparable campaigns points to real prices closer to a third of that.<\/p>\r\n<p>So the $48.8 billion is a headline, not a bank transfer. Which is the quiet joke running underneath the whole week: an industry that measures its confidence in billions of dollars nobody actually pays, at a show where the largest customer for the newest widebody just told its manufacturer to sell the first ten for scrap.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eng5Qe_h_8Y\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: -8px; font-style: italic;\">Boeing\u2019s own film of the first production 777-9 flying \u2014 the aircraft destined for Lufthansa, not Emirates.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: The Telegraph (Christopher Jasper); The Air Current; ADS Group; Emirates; Bloomberg; 20 Minuten.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f0f4ff; border-left: 4px solid #5C91FF; padding: 16px 20px; margin: 32px 0 8px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 8px; font-weight: 600; color: #333;\">Related Posts<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/boeing-777x-delivery-delay-2027-emirates\/\">The Boeing 777X Slips Into 2027 \u2014 Again<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/riyadh-air-boeing-787-10-airbus-a350-1000-farnborough-2026\/\">Riyadh Air Wants the Bigger Dreamliner<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/boc-aviation-cfm-leap-300-engine-order-farnborough-2026\/\">The Biggest Order of the Day Had No Aircraft<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates will not take the first ten Boeing 777-9s built for it. 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