Indonesia's largest airline, Garuda Airlines, has no plans to stop delivering Boeing 737 Max aircraft, despite the recent crash of a Lion Air aircraft.
As a reminder, the Boeing 737 MAX of the Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed on the morning of October 29. Off the coast of West Java. The plane, en route from Jakarta to Sumatra, departed the Indonesian capital at 6:20 a.m. (2:20 a.m. Moscow time) and disappeared from radar at 6:33 a.m. (2:33 a.m. Moscow time). The country's Ministry of Tourism told TRN that there were no Russian citizens on board.
Incidentally, the president of the state-owned company, Ashara Danadiputra, notes that "there are no problems with the Max-type aircraft," but currently only one Boeing 737 Max aircraft remains in the fleet. He also adds that the cause of the plane crash is still under investigation.
According to him, following the incident, the airline does not intend to abandon the delivery of Max-type aircraft. For example, by 2020, the company is scheduled to receive three Boeing 737 Max aircraft, and by 2030, the number of aircraft will reach 49. This aircraft delivery agreement was signed back in 2015, at a cost of $4.9 billion at the time.
“The company does not intend to revise the agreements,” said Ashara Danadiputra.
According to TASS, following the crash of a Boeing 737 Max in Indonesia, Lion Air officials may cancel the delivery of 190 aircraft worth a total of $22 billion. They suspect Boeing is trying to divert attention from design changes and shift responsibility to Lion Air.
Source: trn-news.ru