[photopress:Boeing_737_800_for_China.jpg,full,alignright]China News Service reports that Xiamen Airlines intends to buy 60 Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft by 2013.
The airline, based in Xiamen, east China’s Fujian Province, will import 35 Boeing 737-800s by 2010. The price on the rest is still being negotiated.
Xiamen Airlines currently has a fleet of 43 aircraft, including nine Boeing 737-800s, operates 140 domestic and overseas air routes and handles seven million passengers a year.
It is difficult to overemphasize how important China is to Boeing’s future. Here is an order which would be headline news in any European newspaper. Yet, this is one of China’s lesser-known airlines — at least, outside China — about to make an order which will, literally, change the fortunes of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer.
Source: English People’s Daily Online