Muligens litt pussig at de ikke satser på sitt eget produkt C919. Den er riktig nok ikke ferdig testet, men Boeing har store leveringproblemer nå så det blir nok en stor backlog før kineserne får sine fly. (Red.)
China aircraft lessor orders 50 737 MAX jets, in boost
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(Reuters) -China Development Bank
Financial Leasing said its aircraft leasing unit would order 50 Boeing 737 MAX
8 jets, in a boost to the planemaker that has been grappling with a slowdown in
Chinese orders and a strike by factory workers.
Publicly disclosed Boeing plane
purchases by Chinese customers had slowed significantly since Sino-U.S. trade
relations deteriorated in 2018 and the manufacturer dealt with a lengthy return
to service for the MAX in China after two deadly crashes.
The order for 50 MAX jets is the largest
by a Chinese customer since China Southern Airlines ordered the same number of
MAX planes in 2015, according to data from Boeing's website. Boeing declined to
comment.
The planemaker's deliveries to China had
been gradually recovering in recent months after a lengthy hiatus.
CDB Aviation Lease will take delivery of
the planes between 2028 and 2031, its parent said in a statement, adding it
would boost the proportion of next-generation aircraft in its fleet.
The deal comes less than a week after
more than 30,000 Boeing factory workers went on strike seeking higher pay,
which has resulted a halt to production of the planemaker's best-selling
aircraft, the MAX, among other airplanes.
Boeing said on Wednesday that tens of
thousands of workers will be placed on temporary suspension due to the strike.
The MAX order is the second major
aircraft deal announced by China Development Bank Financial Leasing in the last
week. The firm last week said it would purchase 80 Airbus A320neo planes, with
deliveries expected to begin in 2030.
(Reporting by Adwitiya Srivastava in Bengaluru, Sophie Yu in Beijing and Allison Lampert in Montreal; Editing by Alan Barona and Jamie Freed
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