In May this year, it firmed the eight options to take its total order for the type to 24, with the option to convert some of them - Kao said it would likely convert six - into higher-capacity B787-10s.Ĭhina Airlines will have a better sense of how many B777Xs or A350s will be needed once it decides on the number of B787-10s, Kao said. Taiwan’s majority state-owned flag carrier had already finalised a deal with Boeing last year to acquire sixteen B787-9s with options for a further eight. “We are looking for a new fleet” to replace the existing B777 widebodies, he said without specifying a possible timeline for the upgrade. China Airlines (CI, Taipei Taoyuan) will choose between Boeing’s much-delayed B777X ( B777-9) and Airbus’s A350-1000 to replace the ten B777-300ERs it currently operates, its president Kao Shing-Hwang told Bloomberg Television on August 29.
