The
Boeing 777 is a long-range
wide-body twin-engine
jet airliner designed and manufactured by
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
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, the commercial
business unit
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of
Boeing
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. Commonly referred to as the "Triple Seven",
it is the largest
twinjet. The 777 can accommodate between 301 and 450 (Air Canada High Density) passengers in a
three-class layout, and has a
range
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of , depending on the model. Developed in consultation with eight major airlines, the 777 was designed to replace older wide-body airliners and bridge the capacity difference between the
767
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and
747.
The 777 is produced in two fuselage lengths. The original 777-200 model first entered service in 1995, followed by the extended-range 777-200ER in 1997.
The stretched 777-300, which is longer, began service in 1998. The longer-range 777-300ER and 777-200LR variants entered service in 2004 and 2006, respectively, while a
freighter version, the 777F, debuted in 2009.
[
]United Airlines
United Airlines, Inc. (commonly referred to as United), is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois. first placed the 777 into commercial airline service in 1995. The most successful variant is the 777-300ER with 799 aircraft delivered and over 844 orders to date.[ ]Emirates
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operates the largest 777 fleet with 148 aircraft.[ FedEx Express operates the largest fleet of the 777F cargo aircraft. As of June 2019, 2,033 Boeing 777s, of all variants, have been ordered and 1,598 have been delivered.
]
Model summary
United Airlines placed the launch order for the 777 program on October 14, 1990 when it purchased 34 Pratt & Whitney PW4084-powered 777-200s valued at US$11 billion with options
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on an additional 34.
Current and future operators
The 777-200 entered into service with United Airlines on June 7, 1995 with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport
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to Dulles International Airport. From day one, the 777 was awarded 180-minute ETOPS
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clearance by the Federal Aviation Administration
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, making it the first airliner to carry an ETOPS-180 clearance into service. This would later be increased to 207 minutes by October 1996. British Airways
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placed the first model with General Electric GE90-77B engines into service on November 17, 1995. The first Rolls-Royce Trent 877-powered aircraft was delivered to Thai Airways International
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on March 31, 1996, completing the introduction of the three power-plants initially developed for the airliner.
In July 2009, Emirates
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surpassed Singapore Airlines
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as the biggest 777 operator, when the 78th aircraft was delivered. Since 2010, Emirates is the largest Boeing 777 operator, with 152 aircraft;["World Airliner Census". ''Flight International'', August 24–30, 2010.] the carrier began phasing out older −200s, −200ERs and −300s in February 2011,[ Other primary operators are ]United Airlines
United Airlines, Inc. (commonly referred to as United), is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois. (96), Qatar Airways (81), Air France
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(70), American Airlines
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(67), and Cathay Pacific
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(65). As of November 2011, 62 airline customers operate variants of the Boeing 777.
The following table lists of active operators of the aircraft as of September 2022.
Government operators
References
;Footnotes
# 180-minute ETOPS approval was granted to the General Electric GE90-powered 777 on October 3, 1996, and to the Rolls-Royce Trent 800
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Launched in September 1991, it first ran in September 1993, was granted EASA certification on 27 Jan ...
-powered 777 on October 10, 1996.
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