Qantas, with 50 firm B787 orders and another 50 or so options/rights, is one of Boeing’s largest clients for the Dreamliner aircraft and gets second billing with the manufacturer after All Nippon Airways, the seed purchaser. The latest move, announced today, will now reverse the order in which Qantas’ LCC subsidiary Jetstar receives the aircraft. This implies an important reshaping of Qantas/Jetstar’s domestic and international strategy.
As a result, the LCC will now be receiving the smaller, first version, the B787-8, instead of Qantas, with eight of them being delivered in the 18 months between mid-2012 and 2014. This is one of a sequence of juggles of the orders, with the first deliveries previously destined for Qantas. Now that Jetstar is taking the B787-8s, the larger A330-200s can be shifted to its big brother, allowing the retirement of the domestic......
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