United Airlines will reportedly announce an order for at least 200 new jets next week, a mix between Airbus and Boeing aircraft.
United Airlines Rumored To Place Huge New Jet Order
As noted in Forbes and independently confirmed by Live and Let’s Fly, United Airlines will announce a huge new jet order next Tuesday at it looks to growth beyond the pandemic.
While details remain limited, United will purportedly buy:
- 100 Boeing 737MAX jets
- up to 100 Airbus A321 jets
There is also talk of a large widebody order.
Unsurprisingly, a United spokesperson refused to confirm any details:
“We do not currently have a deal in place with Boeing or Airbus to purchase new aircraft and do not comment on speculative aircraft orders.”
Still, the United spokesperson added:
“We have, for months now, turned our attention away from managing the crisis of the pandemic and toward planning for our bright future. Those plans include thinking about how to harness the power of the best, midcontinent hubs in the industry; capitalizing on the financial benefits of increasing the gauge of our fleet and, most importantly, building on the significant improvements in our customers’ experience.”
This all but confirms Tuesday’s announcement will include new aircraft orders.
While other rumors suggest United’s order will be “the largest aircraft order in history” American Airlines placed an order for 460 narrowband jets in 2011, including:
- 200 Boeing 737s
- 260 Airbus A321s
By price, Emirates’ huge 2019 Boeing 777 and 787 order still tops the list.
CONCLUSION
United Airlines is rumored to announce a huge new aircraft order next week, which may include both narrow and widebody aircraft. As the world (begins) to emerge from the pandemic, this is an exciting time of growth for the U.S. airline industry after more than a year of reduced schedules, massive losses, and taxpayer bailouts.
Are you expecting a huge United Airlines jet order?
Ho-hum. New performance aircraft, old performance crew.
Doesn’t anyone think that maybe just maybe since UA and the other major carriers received a lot of US Taxpayer CASH that if they were going to purchase new equipment that they consider BA as a prime vendor? Or it they want the AB321 made in the US then a surcharge tax be made. Folks the “bill” for all this relief “infrastructure” bills etc has to be paid for our grandchildren will be paying this off.
Just saying
@Ghostrider5408
Let’s put this to bed. The airlines received government aid that was to pay employee salaries. It was not a slush fund of money to spend on other things.
If UA is going to buy new airplanes, they are going to the financial markets to borrow the money. This has nothing to do with “US taxpayers.”
And if you really want to be consistent with your outrage of sucking off the government till, why don’t you whine about our billions in farm subsidies which goes directly into farmers pockets, municipal corporate tax breaks, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the 2017 massive tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans with no corresponding cut in the budget.
So if you want to whine about passing this along to “our grandchildren,” the airlines aren’t even a fraction of the problem
So well said! Republicans only like spending when they are in office.
This.
The midcontinent part of the answer is intriguing.
DEN / IAH the focus based on that but why would that involve widebody.
@ Matt: This is all great and exciting news!! However, just remember UAL had previously already placed a Huge order with all Boeing acft: 100 B737 Max 10, almost 90 B737 Max 9 and almost 30 B 737 Max 8. True, the Max8 order was just placed last March, but still. If you combine that with this New order that’s in the works, it would surely be Much Larger than AA’s 2011 order, and, with much better aircraft. Cheers and congratulations my friend!!
Most of the MAX and 321 orders have been replacements for old frames for which they desperately needed delivery slots. If this article’s report is based in fact, this is UA striking deals for delivery slots likely over the next decade for further replacement and some factor of growth.
i suspect the widebody decisions will be shoved forward for the immediate future. They have plenty currently, albeit a bit long in the tooth. Old beat up planes never stopped Big D’s march to supremecy.
New aircraft always equals less passenger space.
The more A321s the better…the 737 is straight antiquated trash at this point
For the first time ever, I agree with you 100% on something!
Everyone can agree that a ~60 year old design should be retired already…good riddance
Southwest and Ryan Air seem to do very will with the good old 737’s.
Doesn’t anyone proof anymore?
Even though the attack did not occur onboard, it is sure to increase calls among airlines and flight attention unions to increase penalties for poor behavior onboard and lend credence to the argument that passengers are deliberately targeting flight attendants to take out their anger.
Speaking of not proofing…
This article is about aircraft orders, not an attack. Methinks you meant to reply on a different article…. 🙂
@DTWNNYC – let me help you out. Government funding to pay employee salaries frees up other cash to help purchase what……
You clearly missed the irony of his comment. That is, in the context of bailouts, this is nothing compared to what large profitable corporations get each year in tax breaks. Like Amazon. And what, as he points out, farms get in subsidies. Need we mention Boeing as another example? No one is saying it’s right. But assuming this is some kind of special one of that middle class tax payers are subjected to is naive at best. It’s been going on for years.
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