{"id":5110,"date":"2019-06-18T19:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2019-06-18T19:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:20:34","slug":"korean-air-to-buy-30-boeing-787-planes-for-9-67-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5110","title":{"rendered":"Korean Air to Buy 30 Boeing 787 Planes for $9.67 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; South Korea&#8217;s biggest carrier Korean Air Lines said on Wednesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding to buy 30 Boeing planes for $9.67 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said in a statement that it will buy 20 Boeing 787-10s and 10 more 787-9s to add to its existing fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the first purchase for a South Korean carrier of a 787-10 model, the largest member of the Dreamliner family, the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Hayoung Choi, Joori Roh; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg?fit=640%2C360\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s biggest carrier Korean Air Lines said on Wednesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding to buy 30 Boeing planes for $9.67 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,4813,89,799,2203,1397,4017,868],"tags":[747,947,42,539,160,41,2150,99,1483,2454,5347,769,412,503,1288,1993,1691,1658,5348],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-train-news","category-transportation-news","tag-747","tag-947","tag-42","tag-air","tag-aviation","tag-boeing","tag-buy","tag-dreamliner","tag-fleet","tag-korean","tag-memorandum","tag-model","tag-news","tag-plane","tag-reuters","tag-south","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-understanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","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=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}