Xiamen Airlines orders 25 Next-Generation Boeing 737-800s

Xiamen Airlines has been identified as the customer of 25 Next-Generation Boeing 737-800s listed as unidentified on Boeing's Orders & Deliveries website in early August. The order is worth US$1.9 billion at 2007 average list prices.

"This order of 25 737-800s plus 10 purchase rights allows us to simplify our fleet with the most cost-efficient and superior-performance airplane in its class," said Yang Guanghua, president, Xiamen Airlines. "The Boeing 737 will help us meet our goal of reducing operating costs and increasing return on investment for our shareholders. Additionally, with their passenger-pleasing interior, the new 737s will carry our customers in utmost comfort on all our domestic routes."

On Thursday, the airline also celebrated the delivery of a 737-800. In December 2005, Xiamen set a milestone when its order for 10 737-800s took the 737 family past the historic 6000th order mark. The airplane delivered Thursday is one of the 10 ordered in 2005.

The 737-800 is the most popular member of the Next-Generation 737 family, with more than 2,200 airplanes ordered. As of the end of July, total orders for all 737 airplanes stood at 7,153 while the total orders for Next-Generation 737s were 4,021. Boeing has unfilled Next-Generation 737 orders for 1,690 airplanes worth more than $120 billion at current list prices.

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