Seoul: Boeing Chinese customers refuse the delivery of new planes built for them due to prices, confirmed the plan of the American plant plan, while a third Boeing plane began to return to the United States on Thursday.
“Due to the prices, many of our customers in China have indicated that they will not take delivery,” CEO Kelly Ortberg said on a call for first quarter on Wednesday.
Ortberg said China was the only country where Boeing was faced with this problem and that the plan of the plant plan was redirecting a new jet supply to other customers wishing to deliver previous deliveries due to a global shortage of new commercial aircraft.
Before the world’s world trade offensive of President Donald Trump, commercial aircraft were negotiated worldwide as part of a civil aviation agreement in 1979.
A Chinese airline taking delivery of a Boeing jet could now be touched by the reprisals imposed by Beijing for the importation of American goods. A new 737 max has a market value of approximately $ 55 million, according to IBA, an aviation consulting firm.
Two 737 max 8s, which had been transported to China in March for delivery to Xiamen Airlines, returned to the Boeing production center in Seattle last week.
A third 737 MAX 8 left Boeing’s completion center in Boeing near Shanghai for the US Guam territory on Thursday, Flight Trackers Radar and Flightradar24 showed data.
The plane was initially built for the national carrier Air China, according to the monitoring database of the aviation flight group. Air China did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
He had been transported from Seattle on April 5, during the period between Trump, announcing the prices for the first time on China and Beijing starting to apply his own prices increased on American products.
Guam is one of the stops that these flights make during the 5,000 -mile (8,000 km) trip through the Pacific between Seattle and Zousehan, where planes are transported by Boeing for final work and delivery to a Chinese carrier.
The Chinese government did not explain why the planes had returned.
Order book
Financial director Brian West said China is about 10% of Boeing’s backwards for commercial aircraft.
Boeing had planned to deliver around 50 new planes to China during the rest of the year, West said, and estimated the options for the marketing of the 41 planes already built or in progress.
“For the nine planes that are not yet in the production system, we are engaged with our customers to understand their intentions to take delivery and if necessary, we have the possibility of allocating these positions to other customers,” said Ortberg.
“We are not going to continue to build planes for customers who will not take them,” said Ortberg.
Flights Group aviation monitoring data show 36 planes built for Chinese customers at different stages of production and tests are now in the United States, including the three aircraft returned.
Boeing data shows 130 orders not filled with airlines and donors based in China, including 96 of its best -selling maximum 737 model. Industry sources indicate that a large part of the more than 760 non -filled orders for which Boeing has not yet appointed a buyer is for China.
The tariff war came when Boeing recovered an import gel of almost five years out of 737 maximum planes in China and a series of previous trade tensions.
West said the problem is a short-term challenge, and that China is starting to resume planes, Boeing is preparing jets for re-marketing.
“Customers call, ask for additional planes,” he said.
Washington has pointed out to open up the business war this week, declaring that high prices between the United States and China are not durable.
However, analysts say that confusion on changing prices could leave many aircraft deliveries to Limbo, some CEOs of airlines suggest that they differentiate the delivery of aircraft rather than paying tasks.
