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Iraq, Boeing sign 5.5 billion dollar
aircraft deal
1.4.2008
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April 1, 2008
BAGHDAD, -- Iraq said on Monday it has signed
a contract worth 5.5 billion dollars with Boeing to
buy 40 new aircraft, with an option to purchase 15
more.
Baghdad had also signed a 400-million-dollar
contract with Canadian aircraft manufacturer
Bombardier to purchase 10 passenger planes,www.ekurd.net
government spokesman Ali
al-Dabbagh said in a statement.
He said delivery of the aircraft would start this
year, with final delivery expected by the end of
2019.
The Boeing contract was for the 737 and 787 "Dreamliner"
planes, the statement said, without giving a
breakdown of the numbers of each. |
Boeing-787 |
Dabbagh said the deals "will strengthen the Iraqi
civil aviation capacity and enable it to respond to
the increasing demand for air transportation to and
from Iraq".
Iraqi Airways, one of the oldest airlines in the
Middle East, currently owns just two aircraft and
leases others.
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 sparked UN
economic sanctions which grounded the airline.
The national carrier resumed international flights
in September 2004 with a Baghdad-Amman service. It
now operates also to Cairo, Damascus, Beirut and
Dubai.
Copyright, respective author or news agency, AFP
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