VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Co., Vietnam’s only private airline, signed a purchase contract with Airbus Group SE for 20 A330neo widebody aircraft, worth $7.4 billion at current list price, according to an emailed statement from VietJet.
The contract, signed on Monday at the Farnborough International Airshow in England, will help boost “VietJet’s growing long-haul services as well as on routes with high demand in the region” around Vietnam, according to the statement.
The planes are “slated to replace VietJet’s current fleet of A330-300 and support the airline’s strategic plan to expand its intercontinental flight network,” it said.
Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced $1.9 billion for 519 grants in 48 states, Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the…
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