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Emirates Orders 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliner Airplanes to Complement 777X family November 20, 2019 in Commercial One of the world’s leading airlines firms up future fleet with 787-9, 777-8 and 777-9 models.

• With the B777-200LR, Emirates is the largest operator of Boeing 777 family. There’s total 155 Boeing 777 in current Emirates fleet. The world’s largest operator of the 777-300ER now has no more of the aircraft type on order. This won’t be the end of Emirates’ relationship with the 777, though.
• Emirates ordering an aircraft is not a common sight – after all, its only orders for the last five years was for 50 Airbus A350s, firming up an order for 36 A380s and 30 Boeing 787 aircraft. Six years ago, the Dubai-based airline committed to the newest Boeing 777 derivative, the 777X.
• Emirates Flight 521 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Thiruvananthapuram, India, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, operated by Emirates using a Boeing 777-300. On 3 August 2016, the aircraft carrying 282 passengers and 18 crew crashed while landing at Dubai International Airport.

By Alexander Cornwell

DUBAI (Reuters) - The head of one of Boeing Co's biggest customers, Dubai's Emirates, wants the planemaker to demonstrate fundamental changes after producing a flawed 737 MAX jet and has urged it to recognize 'culpability and accountability' from the very top.

Influential Emirates President Tim Clark said a crisis over crashes of its 737 MAX had damaged the air travel industry as a whole, but he was confident the redesigned jet was safe.

'Boeing need to take a good hard look at themselves; I'm sure they have,' Clark told Reuters.

'But they have to (show) evidence to people like the airline community, the traveling public, that they have made the changes that are required of them in a transparent manner,' he said, while also suggesting a shift of emphasis on financial matters.

'That (can) only be done at board level and executed ... at senior level,' Clark said. 'I believe they still have work to do in Boeing to get themselves sorted out ... There is a top-down culpability and accountability and they need to recognize that.'

Boeing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The comments from the head of one of the world's biggest carriers, with Boeing jets worth over $50 billion at list prices on order, are among the most direct airline criticisms since a 20-month ban on MAX flights was lifted in December.

Last week Boeing agreed to pay $2.5 billion in a deal with federal prosecutors over a fraud conspiracy charge over the MAX's flawed development.

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Clark's critique, aimed at the highest echelons of the world's largest aerospace company, stood in contrast to the settlement's focus on two lower-level Boeing employees who prosecutors say deceived U.S. regulators.

The jet, a staple of short-haul travel across the world, was grounded in March 2019 after crashes linked to flawed software.

'SHUFFLING DECK'

'Clearly there were process and practices, attitudes - DNA if you like - that needed to be resolved from the top down. It is pointless shuffling the deck,' Clark said, though he stopped short of laying out precise actions Boeing should take.

Boeing should understand the magnitude of damage to the industry and make 'fundamental structural changes,' Clark said.

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Since the crashes, Boeing has fired its former chief executive, added a board safety committee and agreed to strengthen internal controls. Boeing however turned for its new CEO to an insider, Dave Calhoun, a long-serving board member.

It says it has learned 'many hard lessons' from the crisis.

On Wednesday, Calhoun named Mike Delaney chief aerospace safety officer, a new role.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, which has admitted mistakes during certification, has seen its global leadership tarnished by the crisis.

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Clark backed the European Union Aviation Safety Agency for taking a 'very hard line' over the re-design.

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'This isn't a sort of motherhood level scrutiny,' he said. 'This is a detailed assessment of everything that makes that aircraft fly, then I think it should something that people should be relaxed about flying in.'

(Reporting by Alexander Cornwell in Dubai; Writing and additional reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle, Tim Hepher in Paris; Editing by Howard Goller)