Boeing Lands Three Orders Worth Nearly $1.3 Billion Csa Czech, Western Pacific, Finnair Purchase 34 Jetliners

Three airlines announced plans Tuesday to order 34 Boeing jetliners valued at about $1.27 billion.

CSA Czech Airlines ordered 10 Boeing 737-500 twinjets, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group said. The 10 planes are valued at approximately $350 million, with the first delivery scheduled for the first quarter of 1997.

Discount carrier Western Pacific Airlines said it plans to spend $700 million on 20 Boeing 737s; and Finland’s national carrier Finnair said it plans to buy or lease four 757s, valued at about $220 million.

CSA, based in Prague, currently operates five 737-500s and two 737-400s.

Western Pacific, based in Colorado Springs, Colo., started with three aircraft a year ago and now has a fleet of 13.

Tim Komberec, the carrier’s vice president of flight operations, said Western Pacific plans to take delivery of the new planes over two years starting in spring 1997.

The 757s Finnair plans to buy would be the carrier’s first Boeing planes. Finnair’s 56-aircraft fleet currently consists mainly of planes from McDonnell Douglas.

So far this year, Boeing has received orders for 185 jetliners worth about $14.3 billion, compared with 346 planes worth $31 billion in all of 1995.