SEATTLE, 13 June 2006. The Boeing Company has announced that Virgin Blue Airlines has exercised purchase rights for nine Next-Generation 737-800 airplanes.
Deliveries of these airplanes to the Brisbane, Queensland, Australia-based carrier begin in 2008.
The order is valued at $634.5 million.
Virgin Blue operates an all-Boeing fleet of 52 737s and will use the new aircraft to replace leased planes in its fleet.
