Flying with Boeing Boeing commercial airline customers in Southeast Asia include: Brunei FEBRUARY 2016 | 33 Royal Brunei Airlines • Operates 787 Dreamliners • Previously ordered 737s, 757s and 767s Indonesia Garuda Indonesia • Operates 737s, 777s and 747s • Orders include 50 737 MAX 8s Lion Air • Operates 737s and 747s. The airline also owns Malindo Air, Batik Air and Thai Lion Air; all operate Next-Generation 737s • Orders include more than 200 737 MAXs Sriwijaya Air • Operates an all-Boeing fleet of 737s • Took delivery of its first all-new airplanes in 2015 Malaysia Malaysia Airlines Berhad • Operates 737s and 777s • Has ordered more than 150 Boeing aircraft throughout the airline’s history Myanmar Myanmar National Airlines • Operates Next-Generation 737-800s • Took the nation’s first newly delivered airplanes in 2015 Philippines Philippine Airlines • Operates 777-300ERs (Extended Range) • Asia’s first and longest-operating airline Singapore Singapore Airlines • Operates 777s. The airline group also owns Scoot, an all-787 low-cost, long-haul airline; SilkAir, which is moving to an all-Boeing fleet, with 54 orders for 737s; and Singapore Airlines Cargo, which operates 747-400 Freighters • Has orders for 787-10 Dreamliners BOC Aviation • A leasing company based in Singapore • Has orders for more than 100 737s, including 50 MAX 8s Thailand Thai Airways International • Operates 787-8s, 787-9s, 777s, 747-400s and 737s • Partially owns Nok Air, which flies 20 Next-Generation 737s and has ordered five more 737s, as well as eight 737 MAX 8s Vietnam Vietnam Airlines • Operates 777s and 787s • Took delivery of its first 787-9 in 2015 VietJet Air • Has announced intent to collaborate with Boeing on fleet expansion • Became the first Vietnamese private airline to enter the international market in 2013 Photos: (Top) Indonesia’s Lion Air is one of the region’s growing low-cost carriers. JIM ANDERSON | BOEING (Left) Boeing supports Giving it Back to Kids, a nonprofit based in Danang, Vietnam, that provides children living in poverty with access to education, medical care and dental treatments. TIM REINHART | BOEING
Frontiers February 2016 Issue
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