US aircraft leasing firm Air Lease said
Monday it has bought eight new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft to lease to
Vietnam Airlines.
Financial
details of the purchase were not revealed. The catalog value of the planes is
$1.8 billion.
"Deliveries
of the eight 787-9 'Dreamliner' aircraft are scheduled for 2017 and 2018. This
transaction marks ALC's longest lead time for a lease placement to date,"
Air Lease Corporation said in a statement.
Built
largely with lightweight composite materials, Boeing says the Dreamliner is
about 20 per cent more fuel efficient than similarly sized aircraft and is the
first mid-size airplane capable of flying long-range routes.
Boeing
delivered the first 787 to launch customer All Nippon Airways last September,
three years behind schedule.
The
787-9 is a slightly bigger version of the 787-8.
ALC,
co-founded in 2010 by aviation pioneer Steven Udvar-Hazy and John Plueger, also
announced the purchase of a Boeing 777-300 extended range aircraft from
Macquarie Aviation for a long-term lease to Emirates, a new customer.
In
addition, the company unveiled a clutch of new aircraft leases, to KLM, Sichuan
Airlines and LAM airlines.
"These
global lease placements demonstrate the growth of our widebody business in
Asia, the addition of Emirates to our customer base, our increasing level of
business with KLM, as well as our further expansion into proven carriers in
Southern Africa such as LAM," said John Plueger, president and chief
operating officer, in a statement.
The
latest 787-9 order brings to 12 the number purchased by the Los Angeles-based
firm. ALC bought four at the Paris Air Show in June.
The ALC
announcement came as The Wall Street Journal reported the company was near to
clinching a mega deal with Boeing to buy 60 of the planned 737 MAX aircraft,
citing people familiar with the talks.
The 60
planes have a list price of roughly $5.7 billion.
An ALC
spokesman confirmed to AFP the company was in negotiations with Boeing.
The
Chicago-based Boeing, the world's biggest aerospace and defense company,
launched the updated 737 -- powered by a more fuel-efficient engine -- last
August.
Boeing's
decision to offer its best-selling 737 with a new engine, rather than building
an all-new aircraft, was seen as forced by the competition from the Airbus
A320neo.
Boeing
says it has more than 1,000 orders and commitments for the 737 MAX, which is
still in the design phase. The first deliveries are scheduled in 2017.
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