Airline Air Europa has reached an agreement Strategic framework with the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing, work together on modernization of the airline fleet, As reported by the Spanish airline in a statement. The exact number of aircraft or the economic amount of the order is not exhaustive.
Thanks to this agreement, Both companies are extending the long-term relationship, strengthening the relationship it has maintained for years to unite aircraft around Boeing models. from next year.
The airline alsos contributes to “consolidating and developing Air Europa’s relationship with lessors in the market, as it provides solid support to the company’s project”.
more efficient aircraft
This agreement will make it possible to make the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the new Boeing 737 MAX the base of the air fleet. In both cases, Air Europa was the first Spanish airline to use both models, which are considered a benchmark in terms of technological innovation, comfort on board, fuel consumption and emission reduction.
During this year, Air Europa has expanded its fleet around Boeing models to respond to the significant increase in seat demand. and the revival of the industry after the pandemic.
This made it possible to recover routes and frequencies with their own characteristics. important destinations all over the world, especially in America, and Adolfo Suárez will strengthen its key position at the Madrid-Barajas airport centre.
Air Europa’s intention It could be to close 2023 with a fleet of at least 61, thus approaching pre-pandemic capacity. Due to difficulties in paying the lease, the Hidalgo family airline had to return a third of the 66 aircraft it operated during the pandemic.
recovery continues
This announcement is coming A few weeks after IAG exercised the option to use the €100 million unsecured loan Seven years given to Globalia last March for a 20% stake in Air Europa.
Also, last July, Jesús Nuño de la Rosa, For more than 20 years he served as managing director of Viajes El Corte Inglés, He was taken over from Valentín Lago by the company’s board of directors and appointed as the new CEO of the airline.
Nuño de la Rosa, along with general management, will be responsible for consolidating the expansion phase the airline has begun in recent months. The goal is to achieve and improve pre-coronavirus-pandemic activity levels during the second half of this year, and the arrival of this new fleet appears to be laying the groundwork for that recovery.