Singapore: The country’s largest airline by passengers carrier Jet Airways (India) Ltd will order long-haul Airbus SAS made A330 aircraft pushing ahead with an aggressive international expansion over the next three years, the airlines chairman Naresh Goyal said on the sidelines of an international airline summit here.
“We are already ordering aircraft, we are in the process of finalizing certain leases, we are ordering more Boeing 737s and we are ordering Airbus A330s. These will be delivered in the next 2-3 years,” Goyal said without expanding further on the order quantity.
An Airbus A330 has a sticker price of just over $200 million.
He said the airline is not facing any shortage of leased Boeing 737 aircraft which it uses for its domestic, South East Asian and Middle East operations.
“We are signing some of the leases (for Boeing 737),” he said he reply to a question on shortage of B737 supply adding, ”Its not difficult for Jet Airways”.
08/06/11 Tarun Shukla/Live Mint
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