All Nippon Airways Likely To Stick With Boeing, According To Experts

Above, yours truly trying out ANA's Business Class seating at the Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show.

The news this past week of Japan Airlines' purchase order of planes from Europe's Airbus Industries sent a big shock-wave to Boeing Commercial Airplanes of Chicago.

All is apparently not lost as it appears that Japan's number one airline, All Nippon Airways (ANA), will be sticking with Boeing.

According to News On Japan:

After the loss of a big Japan Airlines jet order to Airbus, rival ANA looks like a better bet to stick with Boeing. And at least for the near term, including 777X development, outsourcing of Boeing jet manufacturing to Japan will continue. 

Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief Ray Conner told an audience in Seattle a year ago that "there is not a relationship in the world like the one we have with Japan." 

That relationship was shaken this week when Japan Airlines (JAL) announced a blockbuster deal to buy A350 jets from Airbus. 

But the Boeing-Japan fortress isn't about to crumble quickly, say close observers. 

Near term, party politics in Japan gives Boeing an edge over Airbus for a pending big jet order by the second big Japanese airline, All Nippon Airways (ANA). 

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