A Boeing 737 MAX sits outside the hangar during a meditur tour of the Boeing 737 MAX at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington.
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Boeing said on Wednesday that it had scored its first orders for its beleaguered 737 Max aircraft since November, and sold two of them to a Polish charter airline with options to buy two more.
Enter Air, a full-fledged Boeing airline, and Boeing also reached an agreement on the foundation of the 737 Max, which has been out of service worldwide since March 2019 after two crashes that killed 346 people. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal, but said it would include the postponement of deliveries.
“We are humbled by Enter Air’s commitment to the Boeing 737 family,” Ihssane Mounir, former Boeing vice president of commercial sales and marketing, said in a news release.
Fulfilling Air’s orders for the Max aircraft will not cause much trouble in Boeing’s problems this year. Aircraft customer cancellations have brought new sales points over the past six months as airlines have to deal with both the extensive groundbreaking of Max aircraft and the coronavirus pandemic devastating demand for air travel.
By July, Boeing had net negative orders of 836 aircraft, including aircraft that pulled the company out of its backlog.
Boeing shares were up 0.8% in midday trading, but have been down more than 47% so far this year.
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