Boeing loses an order of 5,200 million from 737 MAX of an Arab airline | Businesses

US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has lost an order for 50 aircraft 737 MAX from the low-cost airline Flyadeal Arab Airlines, announced last December and valued at about $ 5.9 billion (5.2 billion euros) , against his rival Airbus, according to Sunday's signatures.

In a statement sent to Efe, Boeing said that "it continues to focus on bringing the 737 MAX back into service safely and on the resumption of MAX aircraft deliveries," he said. who are paralyzed in almost everyone, while waiting for certification by the authorities. an improvement in its control system, involved in two disasters.

"Boeing is proud of its partnership with the Saudi aviation industry for seven decades and we wish the Flyadeal team the best in developing its business," added the company.

On Sunday, Flyadeal announced the purchase of 30 NE20 A320 aircraft from Boeing's rival company, Airbus, with the option of acquiring 20 additional aircraft and delivering them all by 2021. The airline will therefore operate a fleet integrated solely by this model, with whom previously counted before, according to a statement.

Similarly, the subsidiary of the Saudi airline said that the purchase contract was recently signed at the Paris Air Show, north of Paris, where it became clear that Airbus was getting the pulse of the commercial of a Boeing weakened by the severe crisis he is going through his plan of stars.

The failure of the purchase agreement between Boeing and Flyadeal represents the first setback for an aerospace customer, who is suffering the consequences of accidents that occurred in the Java Sea in October 2018 and in Ethiopia in March this year, causing a total of 346 deaths

The investigation is not over but Boeing acknowledged that both incidents were due to a technical malfunction of the flight control software, called MCAS, for which it produced a set of improvements that must be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). ).

In May, Boeing announced that it had completed the software update and the corresponding tests, but the FAA discovered at the end of June another "potential risk", which the company is currently working on to resolve to allow these aircraft to fly. again.

Boeing paralyzed deliveries from the aircraft to its customers but continues to produce less than 42 units per month, with the idea of ​​accelerating to 57 per month once the fleet will be operational again in the world.