‘Betrayed’ Lion Air preparing documents to cancel Boeing orders
Lion Air's owner threatened to cancel US$22b in aircraft orders from Boeing, saying the planemaker’s response to an accident report for a recent deadly crash unfairly implicated his carrier. “I feel betrayed,” the carrier’s co-founder, Rusdi Kirana, said Wednesday. “I’m preparing documents to propose cancellations. Everything is still under consideration now.” The rupture between airline and planemaker is particularly striking since a Lion subsidiary was the launch customer for the Max, taking the model’s initial delivery in May 2017. Lion is the third-largest buyer of the updated 737, behind Southwest Airlines and Flydubai. The carrier is slated to get 7 of the jetliners next year, followed by 24 in 2020 and 35 the following year. “Lion Air is a valued customer and we are supporting them through this difficult time,” Boeing said. <br/>
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‘Betrayed’ Lion Air preparing documents to cancel Boeing orders
Lion Air's owner threatened to cancel US$22b in aircraft orders from Boeing, saying the planemaker’s response to an accident report for a recent deadly crash unfairly implicated his carrier. “I feel betrayed,” the carrier’s co-founder, Rusdi Kirana, said Wednesday. “I’m preparing documents to propose cancellations. Everything is still under consideration now.” The rupture between airline and planemaker is particularly striking since a Lion subsidiary was the launch customer for the Max, taking the model’s initial delivery in May 2017. Lion is the third-largest buyer of the updated 737, behind Southwest Airlines and Flydubai. The carrier is slated to get 7 of the jetliners next year, followed by 24 in 2020 and 35 the following year. “Lion Air is a valued customer and we are supporting them through this difficult time,” Boeing said. <br/>
