Jet Airways (Mumbai International) is slated to take delivery of its first of seventy-five B737-8s on order from Boeing (BOE, Washington National) during the second quarter of next year.
According to the PTI news agency, airline Chief Financial Officer and acting CEO, Amit Agarwal, told a conference call this week that the first MAX 8 would arrive in June 2018. The narrowbody twinjet will supplement Jet Airways' existing B737 fleet of two B737-700s, sixty B737-800s, and six B737-900s.
According to Agarwal, this year, Jet Airways will lease an additional 6-8 aircraft, primarily B737NextGens, sourced from the open market.
"We have already added one (such) aircraft into the fleet," he said.
As previously reported, Jet Airways is shifting its focus to jet operations amid plans to replace its eighteen ATR72 turboprops with B737s. The B737s are seen as better suited to Jet Airways' domestic market business model given their increased capacity and speed as well as their greater availability of locally-based flight crews.
