Boeing Announces BBJ C Availability at EBACE

747-8 VIP Overhead Space Utilization Kit Offered, BBJ Performance Improvements
Planned for 2011

GENEVA, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced today
that the BBJ Convertible is now available to prospective customers. The
airplane reconfigures from all-passenger to all-cargo configuration in less
than eight hours.

Multi-mission Capability
Governments, corporations and private individuals can quickly change from
transporting VIPs, staff or troops to delivering disaster-relief supplies or
configuring for medical evacuation. There is room for transporting tools,
parts and machinery; race cars or race horses; or equipment for touring bands
and musicians.

Overhead Space Kitted for Flexibility
Boeing recently finalized an agreement with Greenpoint Technologies to provide
747-8 VIP owners and their chosen completion centers with a kit that adds 75
square-meters of space to the airplane's crown. The Overhead Space Utilization
or OSU kit is installed post production above the main cabin ceilings between
doors three and five. The kit includes stairs from the main deck to the space
above. Greenpoint offers three artistically engineered OSU designs.

BBJ Performance Improvements Set
BBJ owners receiving their airplanes after mid-2011 will reduce fuel
consumption by 2 percent through a combination of airframe and engine
improvements that Boeing announced in late April. Airplane structural
improvements will reduce drag on the airplane, reducing fuel use by about 1
percent.

Boeing's engine partner, CFM is contributing a further 1 percent fuel savings
through hardware changes to its CFM56-7B Evolution engine.

Hill Announces Retirement
Steven Hill, president of Boeing Business Jets since August 2004, will retire
in July after 35 years with Boeing. Taking Hill's place is Stephen R. Taylor,
currently the BBJ chief pilot. Taylor has held positions as a production
flight test pilot for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, served as a captain for
Boeing executive flight operations and was a self-employed BBJ pilot for two
years. Taylor joined The Boeing Company in 1991 as a flight operations
engineer.

Contacts:
Vicki Ray, BBJ Communications, +1 206-852-3319 mobile, Geneva,
vicki.l.ray@boeing.com

Samantha Solomon, International & Sales Communications, London
+44 7920 532-437

More information: Boeing Business Jets EBACE Media Kit is available at
http://www.boeing.com/events/BBJ_media

Photos and captions are available with this release on http://boeingmedia.com

SOURCE Boeing

Vicki Ray, BBJ Communications, mobile, +1-206-852-3319,
vicki.l.ray@boeing.com, Geneva, or Samantha Solomon, International & Sales
Communications, +44 7920 532-437, London, both of Boeing