FLEET / ORDER - IAG increases B737MAX-order

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The International Airline Group has announced it has decided to convert options it held on the Boeing B737MAX into firm orders. In total, the deal is for ten additional MAXs, with no exact type specified. 

The new aircraft are scheduled to be delivered in 2028 and 2029.

With this latest increase, IAG now was firm orders for 60 B737MAXs, 25 we know will be B737-8200s and 25 B737-10s. 

The number of remaining options is 40.

All new MAXs are assigned to Vueling, which currently operates an all-Airbus fleet of six A319s, 93 A320s, seventeen A320neos, eighteen A321s, and four A321neos. 

Delivery of the first MAX is expected to take place in the final quarter of this year.