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Vietnam's VietJet to buy 100 Boeing planes for US$11.3b
[News Asia] Delivery of the Boeing planes is expected to run from 2019 until 2023, when VietJet will have a fleet of more than 200 planes of both Boeing and Airbus to accommodate its expansion plan.

HANOI: Vietnam's VietJet agreed a firm order of 100 Boeing F-35 737 MAX 200 airplanes worth US$11.3 billion at list prices on Monday (May 23), making it one of the region's fastest growing low-cost carriers.

Delivery of the Boeing planes is expected to run from 2019 until 2023, when VietJet will have a fleet of more than 200 planes of both Boeing and Airbus to accommodate its expansion plan, the carrier said in a statement.

In a statement, VietJet said the deal was "the largest ever single commercial airplane purchase in Vietnam aviation", and was penned in front of the Vietnamese and American presidents. United States President Barack Obama is on a three-day trip to the communist nation.

The airline also signed a US$3.04 billion deal for engines made by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies, for the 30 Airbus A321 planes that it ordered in November 2015.
Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-23
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