Trump is in Hanoi to meet with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un,
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a trade deal with Vietnam valued at more than $20 billion, with several of the country’s airlines agreeing to buy Boeing jets and technology from the U.S.
VietJet is buying 100 Boeing 737-Max jets and 215 GE/CFM joint venture engines, and Bamboo Airways is buying 10 Boeing 787-9 jets. In addition, Vietnam Airlines is buying $100 million in services and technology from Sabre Corp.Trump, who is in Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, to meet with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, praised the trade agreements before signing them.
“We are going to be signing some very big trade deals,” Trump said at the top of a bilateral meeting with President Nguyen Phu Trong of Vietnam, adding that Vietnam was going to be “buying a lot of different products from the United States … which we appreciate,” according to a report from the press pool there.
Bamboo Airways is looking to open routes to the United States, which would be the first time Vietnamese carriers could fly and codeshare with U.S. airlines, Yahoo Finance
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