Lion Air Firms Up Boeing Order
Singapore Air Show » February 15, 2012 by Neelam Mathews Dinesh Keskar (left), v-p Asia Pacific and India sales, Boeing Commercial Airplane shakes on a deal for 201 737 Max-9s with Rusdi Kirana, Lion Air president. Photo by Mark Wagner. February 14, 2012, 8:30 PM Indonesia’s Lion Air underlined its clear love for Boeing aircraft here on St. Valentine’s Day when it signed a “ceremonial certificate of purchase” to firm up the massive aircraft order it first revealed at the Dubai Airshow last November. Jakarta-based Lion Air’s founder and president director, Rusdi Kirana, and Dinesh Keskar, vice president of Asia Pacific and India Sales for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, were on hand to seal the deal whereby the airline becomes launch customer for 201 Leap-1B-powered Boeing 737-9 MAX airplanes and 29 CFM-7B-powered Next Generation 737-900ER air...