Vietnamese budget airline VietJet goes big with provisional order for 100 Boeing 737 jets
Boeing and VietJet sign the provisional order worth almost $13bn at list prices at the Farnborough Airshow
Farnborough — Boeing struck a new deal for 100 passenger jets with Vietnamese budget airline VietJet Air on Wednesday, deepening a battle for market share against rival Airbus in one of southeast Asia’s hottest markets. Boeing and VietJet signed the provisional order for 100 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft worth almost $13bn at list prices at the Farnborough Airshow in southern England. Of these, 80 are the recently launched 737 MAX 10 — the largest version of Boeing’s best-selling 737 range — and 20 are the benchmark 737 MAX 8 model. "The growth is incredibly strong in Southeast Asia," said Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Kevin McAllister. "VietJet is a major player there." The draft deal comes two years after Boeing upstaged Airbus by clinching an order for 100 737 MAX jets during a visit by then-US President Barack Obama. Until then, VietJet had ordered jets only from Airbus, including a bumper order for 92 jets in December 2013. However, aircraft finance industry sources have expressed ...
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