Saudi airline picks Airbus over grounded Boeing MAX
Flyadeal reconsiders its order commitment after two crashes
07 July 2019 - 16:10
Riyadh/Dubai — Saudi Arabian budget airline flyadeal will not proceed with a provisional $5.9bn order for Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, instead opting for a fleet of Airbus A320 jets.
Flyadeal has been reconsidering a commitment to order the Boeing jets after two MAX aircraft crashed in Ethiopia in March and Indonesia last October. The two disasters killed a total of 346 people, triggered the global grounding of the aircraft and wiped billions off Boeing’s market value...
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