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Indonesia’s Lion Air has agreed to buy 230 Boeing 737 aircraft with a list
price of $21.7 billion, the White House said on Thursday, touting the sale as
the US firm’s biggest-ever commercial order.
The deal
was announced soon after President Barack Obama touched down in Bali for the
East Asia summit on the final leg of a regional tour partly aimed at drumming
up markets for US products at a time of slow growth back home.
The White
House also highlighted other deals, some already announced, including the sale
of eight Boeing 777 planes to Singapore Airlines and an order for Sikorsky Black
Hawk helicopters by Brunei’s Ministry of Defense.
Officials
said the Lion Air order was for 201 Boeing 737MAX aircraft and 29 Next
Generation 737ER planes.
“The
President will join a signing ceremony between the representatives of Boeing
and Lion Air on November 18,” a White House statement said.
“With 230
airplanes at a list price of $21.7 billion, this order represents the largest
commercial airplane agreement ever for Boeing.”
Aviation
Week reported on November 4 that Lion Air, Indonesia’s largest privately-held
carrier, was seeking new narrow bodied aircraft and was considering 737s and
the European-made Airbus 320.
The White
House also said that the deal included options for a further 150 aircraft
valued at $14 billion, which could put the eventual deal at $35 billion.
Officials
said that the deal would support 110,000 American jobs at Boeing and at
suppliers throughout 43 American states, at a time of 9.0 percent unemployment
which is clouding Obama’s 2012 reelection prospects.
The White
House also highlighted another big Boeing deal, the sale of eight 777-300ER
jets to Singapore Airlines worth $2.4 billion which will support a further
11,000 US jobs. That contract had already been made public.
Indonesia’s
Garuda Airlines meanwhile has signed a contract to buy 50 CFM56 General
Electric engines worth $1.3 billion, the White House said..
And
Sikorsky will sell Brunei 12 Blackhawk S-70i helicopters worth $325 million,
the White House said, adding that the total value of all the deals was $25
billion.
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