Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Boeing in air assault for orders

Boeing is in town to compete against Airbus in supplying an initial new fleet of 37 jetliners worth a combined US$14 billion to Thai Airways International (THAI). The US plane maker is pitching three types of aircraft - the 800 and 900 series of the B787 Dreamliner, the long-haul B777-300ER and the single-aisle B737-800.


Its main selling point is early availability for THAI's first block of its dual-phase fleet renewal programme.

"The advantage we have: our aircraft are available sooner," Randy Tinseth, the vice-president for marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said in Bangkok yesterday. The company is offering to make available......

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