{"id":12399,"date":"2014-02-07T07:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ethiopian-airlines-to-acquire-10-boeing-777x-ceo\/"},"modified":"2014-02-07T07:45:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:45:35","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-to-acquire-10-boeing-777x-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ethiopian-airlines-to-acquire-10-boeing-777x-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines to Acquire 10 Boeing 777X: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/figure>\n

{{Ethiopian Airlines is in preliminary talks with Boeing (BA.N) that could lead to an order for 10 of the U.S. planemaker’s latest model, the 777X, the airline’s chief executive said.}}<\/p>\n

“When the 777X comes, as soon as we can get the (production) slots we will be there,” Tewolde Gebremariam told Reuters in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n

“We are discussing with Boeing for about 10 777X,” he added – a deal potentially worth $3.8 billion at list prices.<\/p>\n

The comments represent a strengthening of Ethiopian’s interest in the 406-seat jet after it said last month it was evaluating it but had no immediate plans to place an order.<\/p>\n

The 777X was launched with record orders at the Dubai Airshow in November.<\/p>\n

The airline is expanding its fleet as part of an existing plan to increase revenues five-fold to $10 billion by 2025.<\/p>\n

It already plans to order 10-20 smaller narrowbody jets and expects to make a decision within three months.<\/p>\n

Gebremariam said the Ethiopian flag carrier also wanted to lease up to three more Boeing 787 Dreamliners and would order even more directly from Boeing if they were available.<\/p>\n

Ethiopian recently restored a Dreamliner to service after a fire on the ground in London’s Heathrow Airport, but has said it is satisfied with the performance of Boeing’s high-tech jet despite persistent reports of glitches.<\/p>\n

Modifications offered by Boeing since it was grounded in a crisis over melting batteries last year have improved the aircraft’s reliability, Gebremariam said.<\/p>\n

{reuters}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{{Ethiopian Airlines is in preliminary talks with Boeing (BA.N) that could lead to an order for 10 of the U.S. planemaker’s latest model, the 777X, the airline’s chief executive said.}} “When the 777X comes, as soon as we can get the (production) slots we will be there,” Tewolde Gebremariam told Reuters in a telephone interview. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000050214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-12399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000050214,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12399.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12399.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12399.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12399.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12399.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12399.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000050214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=12399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}