Ryanair will stop buying 737 Max planes from US manufacturer Boeing if they become more expensive due to President Donald Trump’s import tariffs. The Irish airline’s top executive Michael O’Leary threatened this on Thursday in a letter, Reuters news agency accessed.
If the US goes ahead with this ‘ill-conceived’ plan and the duties have a “material” impact on the price of Boeing aircraft exports to Europe, ‘we will certainly reconsider our current Boeing orders, as well as the possibility of placing those orders elsewhere,’ he wrote in a letter to a US lawmaker. In doing so, he reported that he would consider China’s COMAC, but that no talks are yet underway with that aircraft manufacturer.
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