![]() (You can still pay $200 million or more for one that’s already finished to royalty standards.) That leaves a healthy pile of dollars on the table that you can use to fit a custom interior and buy fuel. Current prices for a used 777 range from as little as $3.5 million to $13 million for airplanes in airline configuration. If you’re looking for an airplane that can stay in the air nearly 20 hours unrefueled and transport you and 40 to 80 of your closest friends in ridiculous opulence nonstop on runs such as New York to Sydney, Australia or Hong Kong to London and beyond, this could be your ride.Īnd there’s never been a better time to buy. While the world waits for that aircraft, dozens of used 777s of all variants have already hit the resale market, partly due to COVID contrails and resulting reduced travel demands and partly because of $7-a-gallon jet-A fuel prices. ![]() A flying example of the 777-9 was the star of this year’s Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K., thrilling audiences with nearly vertical takeoffs. They are expected to sell for $400 million to $442 million and already have attracted nearly 350 orders. These versions, which are branded 777-8 and 777-9, should begin deliveries in 2025. As for outside dimensions, the 300 model is 242 feet long with a wingspan of 212.6 feet, and the Dash 200 is only slightly smaller-209 feet long.īut 27 years later, the aircraft is getting a little long in the tooth and Boeing is working on variants with refreshed cabins, updated avionics, and more efficient engines and wings. Early airline passenger configurations featured twin aisles in coach with nine seats comfortably distributed across a cabin that is nearly 20 feet wide, more than seven feet tall, and 161 feet long on the Dash 200 model a Dash 300 version adds 33 feet to the length. Indeed, the 777 was the first airliner Boeing made that was completely designed with software and incorporated full fly-by-wire (FBW) computerized flight controls and mechanical backups. The former CEO of Air France called it his airline’s “cash machine.” One globetrotter, who was among United Airlines’ first paying passengers on the airplane, called it “definitely the better bus.” ![]() ![]() The world’s largest twinjet, it offers the perfect marriage of comfort, convenience, technology, and economy. The 777 is Boeing’s bestselling jumbo, with good reason. When Boeing delivered its first 777 widebody, twin-engine jumbo jet in 1995, airlines couldn’t get enough of them. ![]()
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