Boeing Secures 50 737 MAX Jet Order from Vietnam Airlines
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The Boeing 737-900 was part of Alaska Airlines' fleet for almost 25 years.
HANOI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet has signed a $965 million financing deal with Griffin Global Asset Management for the purchase of 6 Boeing 737-8 aircraft, it said on Thursday.
SEATTLE — As the world's most popular airliner, a Boeing 737 plane takes off every 15 seconds. However, Boeing almost dumped the jets. Nobody could have guessed the planes would end up accounting for half of the company's revenue, $30 billion. First ...
Against that backdrop, buying a $70 million VIP-configured 737 MAX and calling it a deportation platform doesn’t look like an isolated procurement quirk. It looks like a pattern: expensive aircraft decisions justified with broad claims (“mission readiness,” “cost savings,” “dual use”) while the underlying facts invite skepticism.
Boeing has recorded its strongest start to a year since 2023, delivering 46 aircraft in January 2026 compared to 19 from Airbus, following the lifting of production caps on the 737 Max. Both giants are under pressure to accelerate output as China’s Comac builds a significant order book for its C919 in Asia.
Families that lost relatives in two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to revive a criminal case against the manufacturer.