Alaska Airlines to lease 13 additional B737-9s

Alaska Airlines has signed a lease-agreement with Air Lease Corporation in which they will sell ten A320s to ALC and in return lease thirteen B737-9s from the lessor. The new MAXs will be delivered between the end of 2021 and 2022.

The thirteen airplanes are additional to the 32 B737-9s the airline has directly on order with Boeing. The first five of these are expected to be delivered before summer next year and Alaska Airlines is gearing up to start flying the MAX in March.

With the sale of these ten A320s, Alaska Airlines now has an Airbus-fleet of 39 A320s and ten A321neos. The airline also operates 166 B737s; fourteen -700s, 61 -800s and 91 -900s.

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