{"id":28943,"date":"2025-05-14T21:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/boeing-wins-qatar-airways-order-of-up-to-210-jets\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T21:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:04:04","slug":"boeing-wins-qatar-airways-order-of-up-to-210-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/boeing-wins-qatar-airways-order-of-up-to-210-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing wins Qatar Airways order of up to 210 jets"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Qatar Airways has agreed to buy up to 210 jets from American manufacturing giant Boeing, according to US President Donald Trump, who announced the $96bn order as part of his tour of the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The White House said the deal would support 154,000 jobs in the US each year of production and marked the largest-ever order of 787 Dreamliners, a wide-body jet used for longer flights. <\/p>\n

Qatar Airways and Boeing later confirmed the agreement.<\/p>\n

It is the second deal involving Boeing to be announced as part of Trump’s trip, marking a win for the company as it tries to rebuild its business after a series of manufacturing and safety issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The blow-out of a panel on one of its planes in January 2024 forced a dramatic slowdown in its manufacturing operations and sparked a more than $10bn loss last year. <\/p>\n

But shares in the company, which was also hurt by a seven-week strike by some of its workers<\/a>, have climbed roughly 20% since January, an indication of increased optimism about the firm’s prospects.<\/p>\n

Boss Kelly Ortberg told investors in April that the firm’s recovery plan was in “full swing” after the firm delivered a greater-than-expected 130 aircraft in the first three months of the year.<\/p>\n

Executives said the firm still had a backlog of 5,600 planes, amounting to more than seven years of production. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Qatar Airways deal, which includes 130 Dreamliners, 30 777-9s and the option for 50 other planes, <\/b>was part of more than $240bn in “economic deals” between the US and Qatar that the White House announced as part of the trip.<\/p>\n

It would deepen a longstanding relationship between Boeing and the state-owned airline, which already had 150 Boeing airplanes in its fleet and more than 130 jets on order, according to Boeing’s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“It’s the largest order of jets in the history of Boeing, that’s good,” Trump said at the signing “So that’s a record, Kelly, and congratulations to Boeing. Get those planes out there, get them out there.”<\/p>\n

As part of Trump’s trip, Boeing had previously announced<\/a> it had won a commitment from Saudia Arabia’s Avilease, which leases planes to airlines, to buy 20 737 MAX planes, with options for 10 more. <\/p>\n

British Airways owner IAG also said earlier this month that it had placed an order for 32 787-10 aircraft worth $13bn, a deal Trump previewed as part of his US-UK trade announcement. Those are set to start being delivered in 2028. <\/p>\n

The trade truce between the US and China has also helped to ease a challenge for the firm, whose customers in China had stopped accepting planes as tariffs escalated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Richard Aboulafia, managing director of US-based consultancy firm Aerodynamic Advisory, said the timing of the Qatar Airways order was “politically savvy” and a “nice win” for Boeing.<\/p>\n

However, he added: “It doesn’t indicate an accelerated need for aircraft or that Boeing has won any battle,” noting that airlines often make orders for delivery dates far into the future. <\/p>\n

Boeing’s problems in recent years have stemmed from the difficulty it has had meeting delivery deadlines – not a fall in demand. <\/p>\n

“You can add more jets to the backlog – thank you Qatar Airways – but the problem for some time now, and it will continue to be a problem, is on the production side,” he said. “They need to build more planes.”<\/p>\n

John Grant of aviation analytics firm OAG said the Qatar Airways deal was “an important statement for Boeing in terms of re-establishing” itself in the market, but that it was not a surprising development, given the relationship between the two firms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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