Boeing Co. has orders for 71 planes worth about $10 billion from Japan Airlines Corp., which filed for bankruptcy Tuesday. That's 21 more than the U.S. company had previously disclosed.
JAL has contracts for 20 737 short-haul airliners, together with nine 767 and seven 777 wide-bodies, as well as 35 of the new 787 Dreamliners, Randy Tinseth, the manufacturer's marketing chief for commercial aircraft, said Tuesday in Dublin.
The airline plans to cut almost one-third of its workforce, 31 routes and 53 planes. JAL spokeswoman Sze Hunn Yap said she wasn't aware of any plans to drop existing orders for new planes.
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