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| | ROBERT L AVERY, PRESIDENT, BOEING AIRPLANE SERVICES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | What burns Boeing is that in all its past years it's concentrated on building new aircraft rather than looking after them, choosing to pursue its 50-60% or so share of the $70 billion-a-year new plane market while hardly playing at all in the even bigger market for maintenance and services. |
 | | The group was instrumental in the deal where Boeing took 44 Boeing 757s from British Airways in trade for new aircraft, and converted the trade-ins to freighters for DHL. |
 | | These include the retrofit of Boeing 777-style interiors in older 737, 747, 757, and 767 aircraft, the retrofit of overhead attendant and crew rest facilities in the 777, and "Big Bins," offering 60% more storage capacity, in 737 and 757 aircraft, that will be available next year. |
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