{"id":407671,"date":"2021-03-30T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=407671"},"modified":"2021-03-30T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:39:09","slug":"boeing-wins-biggest-737-max-order-since-safety-ban-lift-from-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-wins-biggest-737-max-order-since-safety-ban-lift-from-southwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing wins biggest 737 MAX order since safety-ban lift from Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; U.S. planemaker Boeing Co said on Monday it sold 100 new 737 MAX-7 jets to long-time customer Southwest Airlines, in its biggest order win since the aircraft&#8217;s safety ban was lifted in the United States late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Boeing were up 3.5% in early trading on the news. <\/p>\n<p>The order signals Southwest&#8217;s show of confidence in 737 MAX jets, ending speculation of a shift to jets made by Airbus SE by the U.S. budget carrier as it hopes for a recovery in the pandemic-hit aviation sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a very solid boost for the (737 MAX) program, but since Boeing was the incumbent here they had a strong advantage,&#8221; said Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; U.S. planemaker Boeing Co said on Monday it sold 100 new 737 MAX-7 jets to long-time customer Southwest Airlines, in its biggest order win since the aircraft&#8217;s safety ban was lifted in the United States late last year. Shares of Boeing were up 3.5% in early trading on the news. The order signals Southwest&#8217;s show of confidence in 737 MAX jets, ending speculation of a shift to jets made by Airbus SE by the U.S. budget carrier as it hopes for a recovery in the pandemic-hit aviation sector. &#8220;This is a very solid boost for the (737 MAX) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}