Ethiopian Airways take into account huge Airbus order after deadly crash of its Boeing 737 MAX earlier this yr

Africa’s largest airliner, Ethiopian Airways, is mulling a purchase order of a fleet of Airbus planes. It could be the corporate’s first order for the reason that crash of its Boeing 737 MAX in March, which killed 157 folks.

Based on a Bloomberg report citing the airline’s CEO Tewolde Gebre Mariam, the state-owned firm is on the last levels of placing a $ 1.6 billion cope with European aircraft producer Airbus for the acquisition of 20 narrow-body A220 plane.

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It isn’t the primary time the airline was looking to buy the 100-seat A220s for its fleet. Nonetheless, final yr it had determined to go for bigger Boeing 737 household plane.

“It’s a superb airplane – we’ve been finding out it lengthy sufficient,” Tewolde was cited as saying. The settlement is ready to be accomplished by the top of the yr.

Based on Tewolde, the airline confronted difficulties working giant Boeing 737 MAX, because it needed to cease off at a second vacation spot on flights from Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to cities together with Windhoek in Namibia and the Botswana capital Gaborone with a purpose to refuel the planes. He said that working Airbus A220s will permit direct flights with no extra stops.

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European Airbus and US-based Boeing have lengthy been rivals combating for the airline market. Nonetheless, following two lethal crashes earlier this yr, Boeing’s hottest 737 MAX jets have been grounded because of an ongoing probe. Ever since, Airbus’ income have been rising exponentially, whereas Boeing posted its largest-ever quarterly loss in July, calculating the full price of the 737 MAX disaster at over $ eight billion.

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