United Airlines Launched The Boeing 777 In 1990: Here's How The 777X Rewrites Things Decades Later

To be a launch customer for a particular airframe program presents a company with infinite bragging rights, forever acting as a steward for the respective model. Pan American World Airways was the original customer of the Boeing 747 on April 13, 1966. Qatar Airwayswas the first to fly the Airbus A350.