BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Reuters) -Vietnam Airlines will topic requests for proposals to airplane producers subsequent 12 months to purchase 50 narrowbody jets, its CEO talked about on Wednesday.
The service remaining 12 months signed a provisional care for Boeing for 50 737 MAX planes that has however to be finalised.
“In Vietnam we have to go through the bidding process, we have to open to others… The door is still open for everyone,” Vietnam Airlines CEO Le Hong Ha suggested Reuters on the sidelines of an Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines event in Brunei. “Boeing is one option, they have a very good offer for us.”
Airbus and Boeing are the precept worldwide producers of single-aisle airplane, with Airbus’ A320neo family competing in opposition to the 737 MAX, though Chinese planemaker COMAC is making an attempt to make inroads with its C919.
Vietnam Airlines’ current narrowbody fleet consists of solely Airbus planes, its site confirmed.
The airline needs 170 new airplane by 2035, its CEO talked about.
The requests for proposals go away open a danger for COMAC to produce the C919. China has increasingly more been promoting its planes to Vietnam.
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met a senior COMAC official remaining week in China who talked about the Vietnamese market had sturdy potential, Vietnam’s state info firm reported.
(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; Writing by Jamie Freed; Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Christopher Cushing)
