Posted on 03/03/2019 6:25:20 AM PST by Hojczyk
Boeing Secures $15.7 Billion Vietnam Orders During Trump’s Hanoi Visit
Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways and VietJet Aviation JSC signed deals to buy 110 aircraft from Boeing Co. during President Donald Trump’s visit to Hanoi for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
Bamboo agreed to purchase 10 787-9 Dreamliners worth about $3 billion, while VietJet’s order is for 100 737 Max planes valued at $12.7 billion, Boeing said Wednesday. VietJet’s 100-plane commitment was unveiled at the Farnborough air show last year. The accords were signed in the presence of Trump and Vietnam’s President Nguyen Phu Trong.
Vietnam’s airlines are expanding their fleets as rising incomes and the region’s growing economies are spurring many to fly for the first time, boosting demand in the Asia Pacific, whose air-travel market is projected to surpass that of North America and Europe combined. Demand in Vietnam is also expected to climb after U.S. regulators last month gave their approval to the nation’s air-safety system, making its airlines eligible to begin direct flights to the U.S. and codeshare with American carriers.
The Chicago-based planemaker had been involved in the effort to get the safety rating, which would allow state-owned Vietnam Airlines to launch nonstop flights to Los Angeles and San Francisco, and proceed with a long-planned order for either Boeing 777-8 or Airbus SE A350-1000 aircraft.
That’s more fantastic news for American workers.
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Are there enough qualified workers?
Think Rocket man may have noticed this purchase?
So, the trip was a bust, eh?
Headline written by a semi-literate. Anyone who can’t pay attention long enough to remember that by the time they got around to typing ‘Dollar’ they had already typed ‘$’ shouldn’t be writing anything beyond a grocery list.
Read the article. The deal was made a while ago but Trump's visit was an excuse to sign the final paperwork with him in town.
The visit to Vietnam may well yield long-term benefits re: Kim and North Korea. But it was not responsible for a commitment to buy aircraft.
The announcement was just made then to make it look like Trump is bringing home the bacon. (Which he is doing in other ways anyway.)
Headline written by a semi-literate. Anyone who can’t pay attention long enough to remember that by the time they got around to typing ‘Dollar’ they had already typed ‘$’ shouldn’t be writing anything beyond a grocery list.
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The profession of journalism has deteriorated so badly over the last few decades that it has become a laughing-stock that is now ridiculed even by well-educated high school students!
It's tragic that several highly influential professions have deteriorated so dramatically. Teaching is one. Politics, ditto.
The fields really don't require people of high IQ, work ethics or industry. Now they're full of slackers and malcontents, and the tragedy is they've been influencing America for decades.
Obama would have talked them into buying Airbus airplanes instead by reminding them of our acrimonious history.
We all need to say “Thank You, President Trump!”
Go Trump!
As long as Viet Nam isnt supporting bad actors behind our back there is every good reason in the world why we should forge closer ties with them. It pisses off China for one.
When they’re ready with their Dreamliners I’m going for a third time.
How come I didn’t hear about it on the evening news?
(I know why.)
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