WASHINGTON/DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair on Tuesday announced a multibillion-dollar deal to buy 300 Boeing jets after an 18-month pricing row that has strained one of its strongest partnerships. the aeronautical industry.
Europe’s biggest airline by passenger numbers has placed a firm order for 150 Boeing 737 MAX 10s, with an option for another 150 aircraft.
The deal represents a total cost of $40 billion (36.34 billion euros) at list prices, Ryanair said. According to experts, this amount includes options, which are not counted as orders, not counting the usual discounts usually above 50%.
The list price of a Boeing 737 MAX 10 is 135 million euros.
According to Ryanair, this order will allow the group to almost double its traffic to reach 300 million passengers per year by March 2034, compared to 168 million passengers at the end of March this year.
On Monday, Reuters reported that Ryanair was close to closing a major deal to buy Boeing jets.
The deal marks a long-awaited truce between Boeing and Ryanair, as its chief executive Michael O’Leary broke off negotiations last year, criticizing prices and delays in the arrival of previously ordered planes.
Industry sources said Ryanair had lost some negotiating advantage as other carriers, including United Airlines, placed large orders for the MAX 10.
(Reporting Valerie Insinna and Padraic Halpin; with contributions from Tim Hepher, Abhijith Ganapavaram, Conor Humphries and David Shepardson; Augustin Turpin, editing by Kate Entringer)
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