Dutch airline orders 7 Boeing 737-800s
Boeing has finalized an order from low-cost Dutch airline transavia.com for seven single-aisle 737 jets, plus options for three additional planes, the companies said today.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Boeing said the order was worth $523 million at list prices. Based on market price estimates by aircraft-valuation firm Avitas, after standard discounts the seven airplanes are worth about $318 million.
Transavia.com, an independent unit of Air France-KLM, will fly the new 737-800s out of hubs in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Eindhoven. It has an all Boeing fleet of 29 737s.
The 737 is Boeing’s best-selling plane.
As of Oct. 31, the company had logged orders for more than 4,200 so-called Next-Generation 737s, which include four models from the 737-600 to the 737-900. It has unfilled orders for nearly 1,800 737s worth more than $125 billion at current list prices.