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Shandong Airlines signs with Boeing to buy 50 planes

2014/4/24 15:41:38   source:sdchina.com

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  Shandong Airlines CO., LTD announced on April 21 it has signed a contract with Boeing Company on the day to buy fifty B737 airplanes, including Boeing's 737 NG and 737 MAX models. And the airliners will be delivered to Shandong Airlines during the 2016-2020 period, according to the contract.

  On the afternoon of April 21, Mr. Yu Haitian, president of Shandong Airlines CO., LTD and Mr. Patrick, the representative of Boeing Company signed the contract in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province. Ma Chongxian, chairman and president of Shandong Airlines Group attended the ceremony and delivered a speech.

  The fifty Boeing airliners will be delivered during the thirteenth five-year-plan period, and by the end of it the fleet of Shandong Airlines will surge to over one hundred and forty, an increase of almost 100 percent, compared with now.

  The fifty B737 airplanes include Boeing 737NG and 737MAX models, with Boeing 737NG including Boeing 737—700 and 737—800. The 737—700ER airplane has additional fuel tanks to improve the cruising distance to a curding range of 10,200 kilometers. And the 737—700C passenger planes can be converted to cargo aircraft easily. Boeing 737—800 passenger planes, having a high degree of automation, can better cope with the bad weather.

  It is reported that the average age of the sixty-seven planes of Shandong Airlines is four years old, which is the youngest fleet among China’s airline companies who possess at least thirty aircraft. The fifty Boeing airplanes signed for this time will help Shandong Airlines enlarge its fleet. And they will be mainly used on domestic routes and some international routes, stressing the dominant position of Shandong base while increasing the transport capacity of Xiamen and Chongqing branches, to optimize the domestic airline network structure and open more international routes with emphasis on routes to Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia.

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