- Completes Fleet Renewal Commitment
- Order to Bring Total 737-900ERs in Lion Air's Fleet to 60
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Boeing
Company (NYSE: BA) and Jakarta-based Lion Air today announced that the
airline exercised its purchase rights and ordered an additional 30
737-900ERs (Extended Range). Valued at more than $2.2 billion at list
prices, deliveries of these additional 737-900ERs are scheduled to begin in
early 2010 and continue through 2012.
The agreement was announced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes President
and CEO Alan Mulally and Lion Air President Director Rusdi Kirana at the
Farnborough Air Show. Lion Air, the launch customer for the 737-900ER,
announced its first order for 30 737-900ERs and 30 purchase rights in July
2005. These two orders combined total 60 airplanes. Deliveries of the first
order are scheduled to begin in 2007.
The order was recently included on the Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Orders and Deliveries Web site, attributed to an unidentified customer.
"The Next-Generation 737 is the most efficient single-aisle family
today, and we are thrilled that Lion Air has selected the 737-900ER to
support its expansion and fleet modernization plans," Mulally said. "The
737-900ER increases the 737 family's range and seat capability, and it
shares the same industry-leading reliability of the world's most successful
airplane family. Lion Air has been a great launch customer, and we are
looking forward to delivering the very first 737-900ER to Lion Air in
2007."
The 737-900ER, the newest member of the Next-Generation 737 airplane
family, increases the capability of the 737 by carrying more passengers and
flying farther.
"Maximizing the unprecedented economic advantages of the 737-900ER is
the key to our future growth as we expand our routes and add new
destinations within our growing market," said Kirana. "We look forward to
introducing the 737-900ER into Lion Air's fleet and to our growing base of
customers."
The 737-900ER is the same size as today's 737-900, but with the
addition of a pair of exit doors and a flat-rear pressure bulkhead, it can
carry 26 additional passengers, raising the maximum capacity from 189 to
215 in a single-class configuration. Additionally, Blended Winglets,
advanced technology wing enhancements and auxiliary fuel tanks will give
the 737-900ER an increased range of 3,200 nautical miles (5,925 kilometers)
-- 500 nautical miles more than the 737-900.
"This fleet will help meet Lion Air's strategic expansion goals," said
Dinesh Keskar, Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice president of Sales,
South-Southeast Asia. "With more range and the lowest operating cost of any
single-aisle jet in its class, the 737-900ER is an ideal fit to deliver
superior economics and premier service."
Lion Air operates an all-Boeing fleet and is the largest low-cost
airline in Asia with traffic reaching one million passengers a month since
the airline's inception in June 2000.
SOURCE Boeing Co.
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