The Boeing 737-800 NG, the mannequin that crashed in China on Monday, is a workhorse of the skies.
There are practically 25,000 passenger planes in service worldwide, based on Cirium, an aviation information supplier. Of these, about 4,200, or 17 %, are Boeing 737-800 NGs. China is dwelling to just about 1,200 of these planes, adopted by Europe, with practically 1,000, and the United States, with practically 800.
American Airlines has 265 737-800 NGs in service, whereas Southwest Airlines has 205, United Airlines has 136 and Delta Air Lines has 77, based on Cirium. Boeing delivered practically 5,000 of the planes to prospects between 1998 and 2020, based on Boeing information.
China is the most important marketplace for Boeing planes after the United States. Last yr, Boeing forecast that the variety of industrial planes in China would double by 2040, with Chinese airways needing 8,700 new plane by then, valued at about $1.47 trillion.
The nation is maybe extra essential for Boeing’s main rival, Airbus. Last yr, Airbus delivered 142 industrial plane to China, its largest single-country market, representing 1 / 4 of Airbus’s international industrial plane manufacturing.
Airbus has a mammoth meeting line within the metropolis of Tianjin, producing the A320 single-aisle planes and A330 wide-body passenger jets. It additionally has relationships with Chinese airline and helicopter operators, and plenty of parts in Airbus jets are made by Chinese firms. The worth of the Airbus and Chinese cooperation reached round $500 million in 2015.
Liz Alderman contributed reporting.