A total of a hundred Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft will be purchased by Delta
A total of 100 Boeing 737 MAX 10 jets worth roughly $13.5 billion at list prices will be purchased by Delta, which has the option to purchase an additional 30 planes
The United States airline announced on Monday that Delta Air Lines plans to purchase 100 Boeing 737 MAX 10 jets for a list price of around $13.5 billion, and the company also has options to purchase an additional 30 aircraft.
It was reported by Reuters in March that Delta was moving closer to placing an order for one hundred Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft, and it was reported by Reuters just last week that Airbus was in talks with Delta to increase an existing order of Airbus A220 aircraft.
The announcement was made by Delta during the Farnborough Airshow, and it stated that the company will begin accepting MAX 10 deliveries in the year 2025. Before, Delta was the only major US airline that did not currently own or have plans to acquire a MAX aircraft. After two deadly crashes involving the MAX, which together killed 346 people, the programme was suspended for 20 months. After the completion of the necessary software and training updates in November of 2020, the grounding was lifted.
At a signing occasion, Boeing Senior Vice President of Commercial Sales and Marketing Ihssane Mounir noted, "This is a big testimonial to the value of the MAX." What an incredible recommendation coming from a first-rate airline!
CEO of Boeing's Commercial Airplanes division statement
Stan Deal, the CEO of Boeing's Commercial Airplanes division, stated that the company has seen "high demand" for the 737 MAX since the plane was allowed to resume flying again. This desire has resulted in over 1,000 gross orders and 1.7 million flight hours.
With the addition of this new order, Delta's fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft will increase to more over 300 in total, making it the company's second-largest fleet family behind the Airbus A320.
According to a different story from Reuters, a top-up order from Delta for perhaps a dozen additional Airbus A220s is scheduled to be inked as soon as Tuesday at the air show.
The 737 MAX 10, the largest member of Boeing's best-selling single-aisle jet family, must be approved by the end of December in order for the company to meet the deadline. In any other case, it is required by a statute that goes into effect in 2020 to comply with new cockpit alerting requirements, unless Congress decides to ignore this requirement.
In an interview with Aviation Week that was published this month, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun stated that the aircraft manufacturer could be compelled to abandon the 737 MAX 10 due to probable concerns with regulatory compliance. Stan Deal, the chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, stated on Sunday that the possibility of scrapping the MAX 10 was "not a high likelihood path."
Delta announcement
According to Delta, "the agreement has appropriate safeguards in place, including the ability for Delta to switch to another model of the MAX family if necessary." This statement was made in reference to the possibility of a certification delay.
Before deciding to move through with the agreement, Delta held in-depth conversations with Boeing. Delta's senior vice president Mahendra Nair stated that the company has solutions available in the event that the MAX 10 project was not approved to carry forward. He said, "It took us a long time to get here." "This is really the aeroplane that we would like, and we would hope that Boeing can obtain the extension that they need for the certification." "We would hope that Boeing can receive the extension that they need for the certification."
The fuel efficiency of the MAX 10 aircraft will be between 20 and 30 percent better than that of the jets that Delta is retiring that it will replace.
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