‘Betrayed’ Lion Air Preparing Documents to Cancel Boeing Orders
- Indonesian carrier is third-largest customer for new Max model
- Airlines can’t unilaterally scrap jet deals with manufacturers
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Lion Mentari Airlines’ owner threatened to cancel $22 billion in aircraft orders from Boeing Co., saying the planemaker’s response to an accident report for a recent deadly crash unfairly implicated his carrier.
“I feel betrayed,” the Indonesian carrier’s co-founder, Rusdi Kirana, said by telephone Wednesday. “I’m preparing documents to propose cancellations. Everything is still under consideration now.”