{"id":2186,"date":"2018-03-26T08:28:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2018-03-26T08:28:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:28:46","slug":"boeing-and-ge-appear-to-win-big-american-airlines-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Boeing and GE appear to win big American Airlines order"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Airlines<\/strong>\u00a0(AAL<\/a>) has reportedly ended talks with\u00a0Airbus<\/strong>\u00a0(EADSY<\/a>) for its\u00a0A330neo aircraft, making it appear as if\u00a0Boeing<\/strong>\u00a0(BA<\/a>) and\u00a0General Electric<\/strong>\u00a0(GE<\/a>) will walk away as the winners of the large widebody aircraft order.<\/span><\/p>\n

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American is looking to purchase 25 to 30 new widebody aircraft, which would have a value of around $8 billion at list price. Large customers are usually able to negotiate large discounts, so the real would probably land somewhere around the $4 billion mark.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Airbus has reportedly commented that it was not able to match the Boeing price for its 787 Dreamliners. American Airlines is also reportedly<\/span>\u00a0looking to cancel an earlier order it had placed for 22 Airbus A350 aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n

This deal would also be a huge win for struggling General Electric, whose engines look like the winner for the order over Rolls Royce, according to reports from Reuters.\u00a0<\/span>If the Boeing win at American is finalized, it would be the second big blow for the A330 this month following\u00a0<\/span>Hawaiian Airlines<\/strong>\u00a0(<\/span>HA<\/a>) announcement that it would switch its A330-800 order for the Boeing 787. The Airbus\u00a0<\/span>A330neo has been struggling to get passenger orders, forcing Airbus to consider offering the aircraft in a cargo version to help increase sales.<\/span><\/p>\n

Boeing also stated that it has just delivered its first 787-10 Dreamliner to Singapore Airlines yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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American Airlines\u00a0(AAL) has reportedly ended talks with\u00a0Airbus\u00a0(EADSY) for its\u00a0A330neo aircraft, making it appear as if\u00a0Boeing\u00a0(BA) and\u00a0General Electric\u00a0(GE) will walk away as the winners of the large widebody aircraft order. American is looking to purchase 25 to 30 new widebody aircraft, which would have a value of around $8 billion at list price. Large customers are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,89,799],"tags":[42,415,835,47,118,116,41,486,413],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","tag-42","tag-787-10","tag-a330neo","tag-airbus","tag-airlines","tag-american","tag-boeing","tag-hawaiian","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}