Delta leads Farnborough Airshow jet orders

Farnborough Airshow 2022: Delta Orders 100 Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft

Boeing kicked off solar day i at Farnborough Airshow 2022 with an lodge from Delta Air Lines for 100 Boeing 737 MAX-x shipping, along with options for an additional xxx shipping.

The much-awaited order for 100 MAX 10 shipping is valued at about $13.5 billion at list prices. This is the first major society for Boeing from the Atlanta-based carrier in more than a decade. Deliveries of the MAX-10 jets will begin in 2025.

"The Boeing 737-10 will be an important addition to Delta'due south fleet as we shape a more than sustainable future for air travel, with an elevated customer feel, improved fuel efficiency and best-in-form operation. These new shipping provide superior operating economics and network flexibility, and the agreement reflects our prudent approach to deploying our capital letter."
Ed Bastian, Delta's chief executive officeholder

Welcome to the 737 MAX family unit Delta Air Lines! With today's guild for up to 130 737-10s you bring together a growing listing of airlines operating the largest member of the 737 MAX family helping to drive efficiencies & support sustainability goals.

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Delta was the only one of the pinnacle four U.S. carriers that hadn't ordered new jets from the U.S. manufacturer in contempo years. Nigh of its new orders in recent years came from Airbus.

"We are proud that Delta is renewing its single-aisle fleet with the 737 MAX, Boeing's most fuel-efficient family of airplanes. Built in our manufacturing plant in Washington state…the 737-10 will provide Delta with the all-time economics to conduct more passengers across its short and medium-haul routes."
Stan Deal, President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Delta's Boeing 737 MAX x jets will exist powered by the side by side-generation LEAP-1B engines manufactured by CFM International. According to Delta, near 1-third of the MAX'due south 182 seats volition exist premium seating, with 20 customers in Start Class, 33 in Delta Comfort+ and 129 in Main Cabin.

The U.S. manufacturer faces a December deadline to win approval for the MAX x aircraft. Otherwise, information technology must meet new cockpit alerting requirements under a 2020 law. However, in a briefing ahead of the Farnborough Airshow'due south opening day, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Stan Deal said he thinks that Boeing will win the approval by the end of this year.

"I feel confident near getting through this as nosotros approach the end of the twelvemonth. If information technology takes a fiddling more time, nosotros're going to get back to Congress and ask for that time."

Stan Deal, President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Commenting on the same, Delta said that in example of delay in certification, "the agreement has acceptable protection in place, including assuasive Delta to shift to another model of the MAX family unit if necessary."

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