In a vote of confidence in Boeing and its troubled 787 Dreamliner, International Airlines Group, parent company of British Airways and Iberia Airlines, today confirmed orders for 18 more of the composite-bodied, long range planes.
The deal is worth between $4 billion and $4.5 billion at list prices.
The mid-sized aircraft will join British Airways’ fleet between 2017 and 2020. Wednesday’s order is in addition to 24 Dreamliners the airline holding company previously ordered.
The worldwide fleet of 50 Dreamliners is now grounded because of airlines’ and regulators’ concerns about the planes’ litium ion batteries. Two of those batteries caught …