Air Sahara orders 10 737-800!

[AA 1818]

Indian airline Air Sahara has ordered 10 Boeing 737-800s in an order valued at around $700 million at list prices.

Air Sahara placed the order earlier this year and was listed as an "unidentified" buyer on Boeing's Web site. Deliveries of the Renton-built 737-800 model are expected to begin in mid-2009, according to Chicago-based Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA - News).

The planes will be built with blended winglets, the wing-mounted devices that increase a plane's fuel economy, Boeing said.

Air Sahara is based in New Delhi and has 134 daily flights in India and internationally.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/060828/1337688.html?.v=1

Well this is good news. Ever since the collapse of the merger, I assumed that things weren't going so well, but hey - well done Air Sahara. Has anyone heard about their U.S. service? When is it set to begin?

[TheMightyM]

The order was actually placed in January and just disclosed as for Air Sahara now.