{"id":423244,"date":"2021-06-30T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423244"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:39:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T04:09:20","slug":"united-airlines-places-biggest-ever-order-for-boeing-and-airbus-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/united-airlines-places-biggest-ever-order-for-boeing-and-airbus-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines places biggest ever order for Boeing and Airbus jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -United Airlines confirmed its largest ever order for Boeing and Airbus jets on Tuesday, lining up 270 planes in a push for post-pandemic growth with bigger jets for domestic flying. <\/p>\n<p>The order for 200 Boeing 737 MAX and 70 Airbus A321neo jets, worth over $30 billion at list prices, will boost United&#8217;s domestic capacity by almost 30%, allowing it to better compete for both premium and low-cost travel.<\/p>\n<p>It builds momentum for planemakers seeking to turn the page on the COVID-19 travel slump, at least in the United States, and signals a strong bet on a recovery in hard-hit business travel.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Scott Kirby said it would &#8220;accelerate our business to meet a resurgence in air travel&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -United Airlines confirmed its largest ever order for Boeing and Airbus jets on Tuesday, lining up 270 planes in a push for post-pandemic growth with bigger jets for domestic flying. The order for 200 Boeing 737 MAX and 70 Airbus A321neo jets, worth over $30 billion at list prices, will boost United&#8217;s domestic capacity by almost 30%, allowing it to better compete for both premium and low-cost travel. It builds momentum for planemakers seeking to turn the page on the COVID-19 travel slump, at least in the United States, and signals a strong bet on a recovery in hard-hit [&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-423244","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\/423244","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=423244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}