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Article: Hawaiian Airlines Signs Definitive Agreement With Boeing To Acquire Up To 20 New Boeing 717-200s; Financing Secured For 13 Firm Deliveries in 2001.
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- March 2, 2000
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HONOLULU--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2000
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. (AMEX and PCX: HA) and The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) announced today that they have executed a purchase agreement under which Hawaiian Airlines will acquire 13 new Boeing 717-200 aircraft, with rights to purchase seven additional aircraft, formalizing a letter of intent signed by the two parties in September 1999. The new aircraft will completely replace Hawaiian's current short-haul fleet of 15 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50 aircraft used on the Company's interisland routes within Hawaii. All of the new aircraft will be delivered to Hawaiian in 2001, the first in February.
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