Emirates’ Clark fears 777X jets could arrive five years late

Boeing’s 777X programme is in “a state of disarray”, in the view of Emirates Airline president Tim Clark, who has revealed that the Middle Eastern carrier may not receive its first of the aircraft until as late as end-2025 – over five years later than scheduled. “We should have had our first [delivery] in June last year, and so far we have no visibility on when the first one will arrive,” Clark said Thursday. Clark said that, following discussions with Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief executive Stanley Deal, he expects the jets will begin arriving “either [at] the back end of ’23, ’24 or possibly even ’25”. Cirium fleets data shows that Emirates has a total of 115 777X jets on order: 101 777-9s and 14 777-8s. Letter-of-intent commitments cover a further 11 777-8s.<br/>