Asia customers like range but flexibility crucial: Boeing
Boeing is not seeing its Asia-Pacific customers focus more on sheer aircraft range, despite recent moves to establish long-haul routes. Dinesh Keskar, senior VP of sales in Asia Pacific and India, says absolute range has not moved up aircraft buyers’ priority list. “Airlines realise that you don't optimise the aircraft for one range, and make the aircraft sub-optimal for 95% of routes,” says Keskar. “They don't push you on range, but they want to know what you can do. For a 777-9, we say it will do every route they're doing with the 777-300ER, and they're fine. But, they will ask what additional city pairs can be opened if the range goes up by 100 to 500 miles.” In the last 6 months, long-range services have enjoyed a renaissance among carriers serving the Asia-Pacific. <br/>
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Asia customers like range but flexibility crucial: Boeing
Boeing is not seeing its Asia-Pacific customers focus more on sheer aircraft range, despite recent moves to establish long-haul routes. Dinesh Keskar, senior VP of sales in Asia Pacific and India, says absolute range has not moved up aircraft buyers’ priority list. “Airlines realise that you don't optimise the aircraft for one range, and make the aircraft sub-optimal for 95% of routes,” says Keskar. “They don't push you on range, but they want to know what you can do. For a 777-9, we say it will do every route they're doing with the 777-300ER, and they're fine. But, they will ask what additional city pairs can be opened if the range goes up by 100 to 500 miles.” In the last 6 months, long-range services have enjoyed a renaissance among carriers serving the Asia-Pacific. <br/>
