Boeing expects to deliver 2 aircraft a month to Indian airlines in 2025

“We volition beryllium delivering astir 2 airplanes a period (on average) to India and we expect that to proceed astatine that gait and past turn somewhat arsenic we determination forward…We person gone precise dilatory coming retired of the strike, moving connected information and quality…we’ve realised it’s been precise hard being a Boeing lawsuit for the past mates of years, and we are dormant acceptable connected making definite that we perform,” said Ryan Weir, commercialized income and marketing, India and South Asia, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

“Worse than the delays is the unpredictability of the transportation schedules. The delays are going to beryllium prevalent for a while. What we are trying to hole is that airlines tin number connected erstwhile we springiness them a date, they person the craft (on that date). That’s truly the singular focus,” Weir said.

On being asked if Boeing has received compensation claims from Indian airlines successful presumption of the delays successful craft deliveries, Weir answered successful the affirmative, but did not springiness details.

“Those conversations are private, but yes (there are claims), conscionable similar we person everyplace successful the world, and we are moving done it methodically and consistently crossed the industry,” helium said.

On the interaction of the production slowdown connected transportation timelines, Boeing officials did not supply an estimation of the delay, saying that they are being transparent with their lawsuit airlines.

“We are successful changeless conversations with our customers astir what craft they are going to person when. And that is simply a speech that the customers volition instrumentality guardant publically arsenic opposed to us,” said Boeing India President Salil Gupte.

Late November, Air India’s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Campbell Wilson had said that immoderate deliveries of already-manufactured Boieng 737 MAX jets that were earlier scheduled by December 2024 were apt to agelong up to June of 2025. As for line-fit craft — planes to beryllium built specifically for Air India — the hose was not definite astir the magnitude of the delay.

As portion of its mega craft bid placed successful 2023 with Airbus and Boeing, the Air India radical had ordered 220 Boeing planes — 190 narrow-body 737 MAX planes, 20 wide-body 787 planes, and 10 wide-body 777X aircraft. Of the 190 737 MAX planes, 50 were white-tails — craft made for different airlines but transferred to the Air India radical owed to cancellation of the archetypal bid — and the different 140 were to beryllium line-fit planes.

So far, 37 of the 50 white-tails person been delivered to the group’s low-cost hose Air India Express, with the remaining planes delayed. As for Akasa Air, which placed orders for a full of 226 Boeing aircraft, 27 planes person been delivered truthful far.

Timely transportation of craft is simply a captious constituent of airlines’ fleet and web enlargement strategies, and slower-than-expected craft deliveries could dilatory down their maturation plans.

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