United places historic order for up to 300 new boeing

United Airlines presents hist orderórich to buy up 200 new planes Boeing 787 and 100 additional 737 MAX. Press photo United

United Airlines announcementó today the order for widebody más big made by an aerolíAmerican line in aviation historyón commercial: 100 Boeing 787 Dreamliner with options to buy 100 más. This historic purchaseórich is the próI don't careíplace in the ambitious United Next plan and reinforceá Aerol's leadership roleínea in global travel in the yearsñthe coming ones.

United expects to receive the new wide-body aircraft between 2024 and 2032, and you can choose between the models 787-8, 9 O 10, providing flexibility to support a wide range of routes.

United spaghettién ejerció options to buy 44 planes Boeing 737 MAX for delivery between 2024 and 2026, according to the United Next capacity plan 2026, and orderó 56 MAX m airplanesás for delivery between 2027 and 2028.

the airínea now expects to receive around 700 new wide-body and narrow-body aircraft for the purpose of 2032, including an average of más of two per week in 2023 y más of three per week in 2024.

Además, United continúa with its unprecedented effort to improve the interiors of its existing fleet. Más of the 90% of Aerol's international wide-body aircraftínea now have the United Polaris business class seat®, así as with United Premium Plus seats®; Upgrades for the rest of the aircraft will be completedán for the summer of 2023. United también modernizeá the 100 % of its main narrow-body aircraft with its characteríinterior hall: se prevé that around 100 planes are completed in 2023 and the remainder are expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

It is expected that approximately 100 aircraft of the new wide-body order will replace the aircraft Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 máold s, with all the planes 767 retired from the United fleet for 2030, what will resultá in a reductionón expected up to 25% in carbon emissions per seat for new aircraft. in comparisonón with airplanes máold s that are expected to replace.

The firm order of aircraft 787 addresses United's current widebody aircraft replacement needs during the próxima déeach: its maintenance and economyíto of fuel consumption greatly improved boostán United's efforts to improve its overall cost profile. In associationón with Boeing, this request tooén helps United maintain flexibility with timing of widebody retirements.

At the same time, the options of the 787 allow United to continue expanding its global network and helpístill to keep the márgenes líderes in the airline industryínea on international flights between airlinesínew Americans.

Options exercised for aircraft MAX are consistent with the ability to 2026 and two margin targets associated with the United Next plan. United también has started building the order book for 2027 y más allá with the firm order of 56 additional MAX aircraft.

With this histórich and huge order, the airíwe plan to hire más de 10 thousand pilots, 7 mil témaintenance technicians and 18 thousand new cabin crew.