Gulf Air orders 12 Boeing 787 Dreamliners

Gulf Air signed a woody with Boeing to get up to 18 caller Dreamliners. Photo: STR / AFP/File
Source: AFP

US aviation elephantine Boeing connected Thursday signed a declaration valued astatine $7 cardinal to merchantability 12 787 Dreamliners, with options for six more, to Gulf Air, arsenic the Bahrain-based bearer looks to grow its planetary network.

The bid comes conscionable 1 period aft an Air India Boeing 787 crashed soon aft takeoff, sidesplitting a full of 260 people connected the level and connected the ground.

"Once finalized, this bid volition bring the carrier's steadfast bid publication to 14 of the versatile wide-body jets and volition enactment 30,000 jobs crossed the US," the companies said successful a associated statement.

The US Commerce Department enactment the worth of the woody astatine $7 billion.

The woody "marks a transformative measurement successful Gulf Air's strategical maturation travel arsenic we grow our planetary footprint and modernize our fleet with 1 of the industry's astir precocious and businesslike aircraft," said Gulf Air Group president Khalid Taqi.

"The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has proven to beryllium an exceptional craft for our long-haul operations, and this caller bid reflects our assurance successful its performance, rider entreaty and publication to our sustainability goals."

Boeing delivered 150 commercialized craft successful the 2nd quarter, its highest fig of deliveries successful that 4th since 2018.

That was conscionable earlier 2 737 MAX crashes successful October 2018 and March 2019 -- which killed 346 radical -- plunged the institution into crisis.

The Air India pitchy bound for London crashed successful the Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad connected June 12. A preliminary probe study revealed that substance power switches were switched disconnected soon aft takeoff.

Boeing has not been asked to instrumentality immoderate enactment arsenic the probe continues.

US President Donald Trump connected Tuesday announced a commercialized pact with Indonesia that limits tariffs connected Indonesian products astatine 19 percent, and said the woody features a pledge from the state to bargain 50 Boeing jets, "many of them 777s."

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Source: AFP