Contract Issues With cargolux Apparently Serious Enough To Kill
Official Delivery
It's kinda like getting left at the altar... With little in the
way of actual detail to expl;ain the problem, Boeing has called off
the much-ballyhooed celebration for the delivery of their 1st
B747-8... because the customer, cargolux, is unhappy. Just
yesterday (Wednesday) Boeing exec Randy Tinseth (appointed VP,
Marketing, for Boeing Commercial Airplanes in April 2007) blogged
that, "While final preps are underway for Monday’s first
delivery of the 747-8 Freighter to our launch customer Cargolux,
there’s a bit of a party atmosphere around the Everett
factory right now...