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Boeing sells ten 737s to Xiamen Airlines
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-12-22 15:20
US aviation giant Boeing said it had clinched an order from Xiamen Airlines for 10 737-800 medium-haul planes to serve China's booming domestic air market.
This artist's rendition shows four Boeing 737-800 medium-haul planes. Boeing said it had clinched an order from Xiamen Airlines for 10 737-800 medium-haul planes to serve China's booming domestic air market. [AFP] |
Boeing said that with the order from Xiamen, a unit of the country's biggest carrier China Southern Airlines, total orders for the 737 fleet have now surpassed 6,000.
Xiamen will take delivery of the 737-800s from mid-2006, Boeing said in a statement.
No list price was given for the planes, which can seat up to 189 passengers.
But Xiamen said in May -- when it foresaw buying 15 of the planes -- that they sold for 61.5 million to 69.5 million dollars at list prices.
"This order allows us to simplify our fleet with the most cost-efficient and superior-performance airplane in its class," Xiamen Airlines president Yang Guanghua said in the Boeing statement.
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