Hawaiian delays purchase of jets
Hawaiian Airlines Inc. said it delayed and might scrap plans to buy as many as 24 Airbus SAS wide-body jetliners because of an impasse in talks with pilots over the terms of adding the planes to the fleet.
The purchase at a list price of $4.4 billion was announced Nov. 28. Talks “failed to produce an agreement to date,” the carrier said in a regulatory filing disclosing the delay. “Hawaiian may be compelled not to consummate” the purchase.
The order had marked Hawaiian’s largest single investment in the 78-year history of the airline. The new planes would have enough range for nonstop flights between Hawaii and regions including Asia, Australia, the Americas and Europe.
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