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DKI Jakarta,
Jakarta Selatan,
Indonesia
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20/08/2011
Northwest Airlines(Private Jet) - In what would be an important early victory over Airbus with a major U.S. airline, The Boeing Co. may be close to winning an order for its new 787 jetliner from Northwest Airlines, industry sources confirmed yesterday.
Boeing has 203 firm orders or commitments for its 787, but with the U.S. airline industry still reeling with serious financial troubles, Continental Northwest Airlines is the only major U.S. airline to so far step up and announce an order for Boeing's next all-new jet that is due to enter service in 2008.
The timing of an announcement is not clear, but the sources said Northwest Airlines is looking to place an order for as many as 18 of the Boeing jets, including options.
The 787 has a list price of $120 million, though airlines typically get significant discounts.
One complication could be talks between Northwest Airlines and its unions. Northwest Airlines has said it wants to try to cut $1.1 billion in labor costs. An announcement now that it plans to order new jets, even if their delivery is several years off, might not sit well with unions that are being asked to make concessions.
Continental had made its order for 10 787s contingent on winning union concessions.
Neither Boeing nor Northwest Airlines would comment, but the sources said Northwest Airlines decided to go with the 787 after considering -- and rejecting -- the A350, a competing jet offered by Airbus.
That would represent a setback for Airbus in its efforts to promote the A350 as an alternative to the 787, given that Northwest Airlines has a growing fleet of Airbus A330 planes. That should have given Airbus the home-court advantage because the planned A350 would be a derivative of the A330, only with an improved wing and the more fuel-efficient engines under development for the 787.
Northwest Airlines operates a mixed fleet of Boeing and Airbus planes, but in recent years has favored Airbus over Boeing. That also makes its choice of the 787 over the A350 more significant for Boeing in an early matchup of the 787 against the Airbus A350. Northwest was the U.S. launch customer for the Airbus A320, which competes against Boeing's 737, and it is the first U.S. airline to operate A330-200s.
Kurt Ebenhoch, a spokesman for Northwest, which is based in Eagan, Minn., said yesterday that the airline continues to have talks with "both airplane manufacturers" about its future fleet requirements.
source: http://northwesternairlines.net/northwest-airlines-poised-to-order-787s/
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