{"id":460369,"date":"2022-01-05T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=460369"},"modified":"2022-01-05T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:26:53","slug":"us-carrier-allegiant-air-to-buy-50-boeing-737-max-jets-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-carrier-allegiant-air-to-buy-50-boeing-737-max-jets-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US carrier Allegiant Air to buy 50 Boeing 737 MAX jets: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allegiant Air is poised to order 50 Boeing 737 MAX jets worth $5 billion at list prices, people familiar with the matter said, rejecting offers by traditional supplier Airbus as the no-frills carrier seeks to capture a boom in post-pandemic U.S. tourism. <\/p>\n<p>The surprise deal stems a series of setbacks for Boeing Co and overturns the airline&#8217;s previous strategy of picking up second-hand jets at bargain prices, which had helped it accumulate over 100 jets built by Boeing&#8217;s European rival. <\/p>\n<p>The switch of suppliers is the third such airline defection in as many weeks, this time working in Boeing&#8217;s favor after the U.S. planemaker lost hard-fought medium-haul contests to Airbus at Dutch KLM and Australia&#8217;s Qantas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegiant Air is poised to order 50 Boeing 737 MAX jets worth $5 billion at list prices, people familiar with the matter said, rejecting offers by traditional supplier Airbus as the no-frills carrier seeks to capture a boom in post-pandemic U.S. tourism. The surprise deal stems a series of setbacks for Boeing Co and overturns the airline&#8217;s previous strategy of picking up second-hand jets at bargain prices, which had helped it accumulate over 100 jets built by Boeing&#8217;s European rival. The switch of suppliers is the third such airline defection in as many weeks, this time working in Boeing&#8217;s favor [&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-460369","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\/460369","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=460369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}