WASHINGTON: Boeing CEO David L Calhoun praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient for India’s airline trade and highlighted the exceptional tempo of airport improvement in India and the numerous worldwide alternatives.
PM Modi met Boeing CEO in Washington DC as we speak. After assembly him, Boeing CEO in an unique interview with ANI mentioned, “The most important takeaway is the PM’s passion for India’s development. He does have a specific interest in aviation, in aerospace. It is a big vision.”

He emphasised the significance of India enjoying a major function not just for the nation but in addition for the broader area broadly in aviation and aerospace.
“I would like for India to play a significant role not just for India but for the region broadly. I think it’s great when technologies & opportunities align with the vision a leader has for the country and that’s where we are,” mentioned Calhoun after assembly PM Modi.
He mentioned that the welcome accorded to enterprise and funding and alternative speaks volumes about PM Modi’s imaginative and prescient for India.
“I think, obviously not just to me, but to pretty much everybody who has interacted with him,” he mentioned.
The Boeing CEO additional mentioned that his firm desires to help India as there’s a enormous home market that must be glad.
“At Boeing, we support that 100 per cent. There is a giant domestic market that needs to be satisfied. Airport development is now moving at a pace that the country’s never seen before. And then maybe even bigger is the international opportunity where Air India is making enormous investments, new equipment, new skills, and new talents to be able to support that international traffic, which it deserves a big share of,” he mentioned.
The world’s two largest jet producers have introduced record-setting offers pushed by surging demand from regional airways in India, signalling a attainable resurgence for a business aviation trade battered by a years-long covid-induced malaise.
Air India has introduced two main offers price round $100 billion to purchase 470 passenger planes from prime plane producers Airbus (with France) and Boeing (with United States).
Air India’s cope with Boeing is for 190 737 MAXs, 20 787 Dreamliners and 10 777X jets, with the choice to buy an extra 50 737 MAXs and 20 787 Dreamliners, in response to an organization assertion.
The airline’s order with Airbus is for 210 A320neo and A321neo narrow-body jets and 40 A350 widebodies.
The deal displays India’s aspirations to be a world chief within the aviation sector, which is projected to require over 2,000 plane within the subsequent 15 years.
The deal is anticipated to make India the third-largest participant within the aviation sector and create new alternatives in aerospace manufacturing beneath India’s ‘Make in India-Make for the World’ imaginative and prescient.
In a Tuesday announcement on the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France, Boeing mentioned it has finalized an order for as much as 220 business jets for the fast-growing Air India, with choices for an additional 70 planes. The identical airline firmed up an earlier deal for 250 jets from Airbus, Boeing’s European rival.
Just a day earlier the Indian funds airline IndiGo positioned a agency order for 500 Airbus A320 passenger jets. It’s the biggest deal within the historical past of economic aviation.
India’s Civil Aviation is among the many fastest-growing aviation markets globally and will likely be a serious progress engine to make India a $5 trillion financial system by 2024.
The nation’s aeroplane fleet is projected to quadruple in measurement to roughly 2500 aeroplanes by 2038.
The White House issued a “fact sheet” on Thursday throughout PM Narendra Modi’s state go to to the US which mentioned AI’s order for over 200 Boeing plane “will support more than one million American jobs across 44 states and contribute to the modernisation of the civil aviation sector in India.”