EgyptAir Delegation Travels to Receive the Ninth and Final Aircraft in the Boeing 737-800 Deal

By Akram Medhat

An EgyptAir delegation will leave tomorrow morning, Monday, on flight 985 from Cairo International Airport bound for John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, to receive the ninth and final aircraft of the new Boeing B737-800NGs the company contracted for, from Boeing's Renton factory in the US city of Seattle.

The delegation, with its various specialties, is scheduled to carry out the final checks and the test flight on the aircraft and complete the delivery procedures, so that it takes off at the end of this week from the factory airport in Seattle to join the EgyptAir fleet, becoming the 69th aircraft in actual operation, following the implementation of a replacement and renewal plan and the retirement of a number of models from service, making the fleet's average age among the youngest of airline fleets in the region.

This aircraft is the 29th of the same type in the fleet, which is the most popular and best-selling in the new-generation Boeing 737 family and the first choice of major international airlines, which use it for its ability to reach all points in many markets around the world, operating on medium-haul routes thanks to its low fuel consumption.

It is worth noting that EgyptAir officially contracted the deal for the nine Boeing B737-800NG aircraft in December 2016, worth $864 million, in cooperation with Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, and all of them were received over the course of 2017.