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China Daily USA | Updated: 2014-09-05 12:40

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Talking the 787

Che Shanglun, president and chairman of Xiamen Airlines, delivers a speech at the 787 delivery ceremony at Boeing's Everett, Washington, delivery center on August 29. It is the airlines' all-Boeing fleet's first 787 Dreamliner. Deng Yu / China Daily

With this key

Ray Conner (left), vice-chairman of Boeing Company and president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, gives the key for a new 787 Dreamliner to Che Shanglun (right), president and chairman of Xiamen Airlines, after both sides signed the delivery agreement at the August 29 ceremony in Everett, Washington. Deng Yu / China Daily

High tech jet

Xiamen Airline stewardesses hold a model of a 787 Dreamliner at the August 29 ceremony in Everett, Washington featuring Boeing and Xiamen Air. Deng Yu / China Daily

Executive meeting

Executives from Boeing and Xiamen Airlines celebrate the delivery of Xiamen Airlines' first 787 Dreamliner on August 29 in Everett, Washington. Front row center three from left to right: Ihssane Mounir, senior vice president for sales for Northeast Asia of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Raymond Conner, executive vice president of the Boeing Company and president & CEO of Boeing Commercial Airlines, Che Shanglun, president and chairman of Xiamen Airlines. Deng Yu / China Daily

(China Daily USA 09/05/2014 page9)