The deal is the largest yet for Boeing's new generation of 737's, an update of its classic short- to medium-range single-aisle jetliner, and the biggest one-time fleet expansion at Southwest.
Boeing beat its rival, Airbus, for an order worth as much as $2.25 billion for 45 single-aisle jetliners from All Nippon Airways, Asia's No. 2 airline.
On relatively short, yet congested routes, the A330 competes against single-aisle jetliners.
In January, General Electric Co. announced a joint venture with Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to develop electronics for the C919, a single-aisle commercial jetliner.
Many of those hundreds of businesses are actually limited liability companies created for a single specific purpose – owning his personal jetliner, for example, so as to shield the parent enterprise and Trump personally should it be involved in an accident.
Airbus, too, is about to deliver its own behemoth jetliner — the A380 double-decker — to a single customer this year, the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, a major investor in Citigroup.
A commercial jetliner can burn thousands of gallons of fuel on a single trip, leaving a big carbon footprint behind.
The company says the aircraft "offers airline customers the best seat-mile costs of any single-aisle aircraft and seating capacities comparable to that of a widebody jetliner".
Since then, it has begun investigations of near-midair collisions over Minneapolis, involving a US Airways jetliner and a small cargo plane; over San Francisco involving a United Airlines 777 and a single-engine propeller plane; over Houston involving a Southwest Airlines jet and a news helicopter; and near Anchorage involving a US Airways plane and a Boeing 747 cargo plane, among others.
The jetliner was on fire.
