AMR has said in today’s financial results call that it will order an additional 2 more 777-300ER aircraft from Boeing. 

Is American Airlines opening up piggy banks one at a time and counting their pennies and only ordering aircraft as it is sure it can pay for them?  This makes for 5 total aircraft ordered of the 777-300ER over the past 4 months.  The orders, so far, were initially for 2 with one added the following month and now an additional 2 more added.  Each of these aircraft will be delivered in the 2012-2013 time period.

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Japan’s Sendai Airport, scene of major damage from the tsunami and featured in this post, has re-opened for service again.  According to Today in the Sky blog, Sendai was cleaned up with a great deal of help from US servicemen.

The airport still has a long way to go in being completely restored to business.  However, Sendai was able to accept its first commercial flight from Japan Airlines just 30 days (April 13) after the disaster.  Apparently much of the cleanup was performed by US servicement who got started just hours after the tsunami when they cleared a small portion for their aircraft to land.  The work was done quietly which was in accordance with directives to maintain a low profile during relief efforts.  When the airport re-opened, the US servicemen were already gone.

From my own perspective, this kind of thing is actually more in accordance with how US servicemen usually operate when assisting with relief in disasters.  It’s selfless and it never embodies chest thumping.

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