Riyadh Air is Saudi Arabia’s ambitious new airline, which will launch flights in 2025. Back in 2023, the airline placed an order for up to 72 Boeing 787-9s, as this will be the carrier’s primary wide body aircraft. Then earlier in 2024, we learned that Riyadh Air had placed a narrow body aircraft order, though…
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This was expected.
they have gone w/ Boeing for widebodies and Airbus for narrowbodies out of the gate.
the 787 and A321NEO combo will work well until the fleet and airline is much more mature.
The question will be how soon Airbus and Boeing will start delivering and at what rate
Aren't prototypical fleets heavier on the narrow-body side? The makeup of these purchases (and further future wide-body purchase) indicates that their vision is to be something more akin to SQ or EK than, say, TK or QR, no?
They must've missed your rants about the Boeing production line. How ignorant of them to ignore your comment section musings... You'd of thought Delta executives would've warned Riyadh Air about the 787 given your opinions on the issue...
"say what? No one at Delta cares what Tim thinks and he's an idiot? oh, that's right." Your rants are just dumb rants.
and yet you repeat it.
and it should be clear to anyone w/ half a brain (may not include you) that Saudi Arabia is a major strategic partner for the US and Saudi Arabia was always going to split their fleet between Airbus and Boeing.
The 787 is probably in a better position than the MAX right now.
None of which changes that DL and VS will be serving RUH with Airbus widebodies as partners of Riyadh Air
Nice to see Tim Douglas following up his rant about how underserved Riyadh is with a fat aircraft order.
You are a worthless cretin and the world would be better off without you in it.
"that Saudi Arabia is a major strategic partner for the US and Saudi Arabia was always going to split their fleet between Airbus and Boeing."
Oh right. Because that has resulted in so much airtravel between the US and Saudi on US carriers... oh wait. It hasn't done that, at all
How quickly you change your weird rants about the 787 when convenient 😉