After all the drama with Airbus and Qatar, the airline has announced that they will be ordering up to 50 Boeing 737MAX 10 aircraft.
This order will also likely contain the 777X freighter order that was teased by the airline a few days back.
Both Qatar and Boeing declined to comment on the situation, and what the future will look like for these aircraft. With the change in heart over to Boeing, Airbus will lose a huge customer.
Good luck to Boeing! Al Baker is certainly nobody you want to deal with. His hormones play him every now and then make him extremely emotional and irrational. We saw how it played out for QR and Airbus so let’s hope he won’t pull one of his moves on Boeing as well…
I don’t think they really lost a customer. Airbus rather pushed them away deliberately. Now I am even more interested in how the lawsuit will pan out. If QR did exaggerate, after all, they might have to pay a huge defamation penalty fee, which would really make me question their liquidity after that. But maybe they are right with their claims after all…
They probably aren’t regretting anything because they initiated the order cancellation themselves, and they still definitely made some money because of a non-refundable fee or something else in the contract