With 245 passenger planes and five 778 freighters on order, Emirates is Boeing’s largest customer in terms of widebody jets.
"We're not happy really with what's going on, we always really wanted to see this aircraft entering the fleet when it had been promised," Emirates airline Chairman and CEO Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum told CNBC.
With 245 passenger planes and five 778 freighters on order, Emirates is Boeing's largest customer in terms of widebody jets. But aircraft deliveries by the manufacturerThe company delivered 83 planes in the three months to March 31 — most of them narrowbody 737s — compared to 157 in the prior quarter and 130 planes in the year-earlier period.
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