BOEING has come up with the oddest customer ever for a launch aircraft. And for a very important launch aircraft, the 7E7. If you have never heard of Primaris Airlines Inc neither had we. Details of the customer are normally given with the order statement. Not this time. Research has discovered that Primaris is a US-based airline currently raising launch funds with notables on the board such as Rodney Slater, former secretary of the US Department of Transportation and J. Randolph Babbitt, one time president of the Air Line Pilots Association. It currently has a single 757 available for charter. Its concept is simple. 2 + 2 business class seating on high yield routes, probably not dissimilar to the excellent BusinessFirst layout on Continental Airlines. It has ordered 20 7E7 with first deliveries in 2010 and 20 737- 800 starting 2007. Primaris is looking at New York to Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington domestically and on the international front Frankfurt, London and Paris from Big Apple.
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