VietJet to sign major Boeing deal during Trump-Kim summit
The Vietnamese budget airline has ambitions to fly to the US and a signing ceremony during Trump’s visit will emphasise ties between the countries
Hanoi — Fast-growing Vietnamese budget airline VietJet Aviation is expected to sign a major jet deal with Boeing on the sidelines of next week’s Trump-Kim summit, according to sources familiar with the matter. US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will hold their second summit in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on February 27 and 28. Holding a signing ceremony during Trump’s visit will help emphasise strengthening economic and military ties between the US and Vietnam. VietJet, while not government-owned, increasingly uses state visits to showcase major plane orders balanced between Boeing and Airbus. It signed a deal to buy 100 Boeing 737 MAX narrow-body jets when former US president Barack Obama visited Hanoi in 2016. Next week, the airline is likely to finalise a separate provisional deal agreed last year at the UK Farnborough Airshow to buy another 100 Boeing 737 MAX jets worth almost $13bn at list prices, sources said on condition of anonymity due to an e...
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