Ryanair ‘very keen’ on Boeing MAX 10 if price is right
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ryanair Group Chief Executive Michael O’Leary attends the Europe Aviation Summit in Brussels, Belgium March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Ryanair is eager to make a significant order for Boeing (NYSE:)’s 737 MAX 10 aircraft by next summer, but there has been no agreement on pricing so far, Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said on Tuesday.
Ryanair is already the largest European customer for the 737 MAX, with 210 firm orders of the 197-seat MAX 8-200 model, and has said it is interested in striking a deal for the 230-seat MAX 10.
“We’re certainly very keen to place a MAX 10 order but only when the timing and the pricing is right,” O’Leary told Reuters ahead of a press briefing in Brussels. “Boeing needs an order.”
He said the order would likely be between 100 and 200 aircraft and that he was hopeful of agreement before next summer.
“I think we are making progress and … I think we’d be hopeful we could reach agreement on pricing of a new order some time before the summer of 2022.”
In July, O’Leary had said the MAX 10 order could happen this year, but only if the price was right.
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