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Boeing aims at aircraft sale to African airlines

Cape Town, South Africa - The estimate: 800 new airplanes within next 20 years

Boeing, one of the world's biggest airplane manufacturers, has identified the African continent as a market ripe with potential, declaring its order book filled with an increasing number of African clients in recent years. The company's Vice-President of Sales for Africa Van Rex Gallard announced: "Right now the African market for the airlines is quite small. African airlines only have around 2%...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1135180
Rome, Italy, 10/28/2011 15:10
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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