By Cindy SilvianaJAKARTA (Reuters) - National carrier Garuda Indonesia has sent a letter to Boeing Co asking to cancel an order for 49 737 MAX 8 narrowbody jets, Garuda Chief Financial Officer Fuad Rizal said on Friday. The airline could switch the order, valued at $6 billion at list prices, to other Boeing models, Rizal told Reuters. Indonesian rival Lion Air has been reconsidering its orders since one of its 737 MAX jets crashed in October. Garuda CEO Ari Askhara told Reuters on Friday that customers had lost trust in the 737 MAX 8. He told Reuters before the crash that the airline had decided to reduce the Boeing 737 MAX order from 49 by swapping some to widebody Boeing models.

Source: Ethiopian News March 22, 2019 04:15 UTC