{"id":57032,"date":"2023-03-14T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57032"},"modified":"2023-03-14T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T19:33:15","slug":"saudi-arabias-purchase-of-boeing-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57032","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia\u2019s Purchase of Boeing Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03\/14\/2023 03:01 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>The United States welcomes today\u2019s announcement that Saudi Arabia will purchase up to 121 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft equipped with General Electric\u2019s most advanced GEnex engines to anchor the newly-formed Riyadh Air and expand the Saudia Airlines fleet.<\/p>\n<p>These deals, valued at nearly $37 billion, follow years of discussions, including engagement by U.S. officials. \u00a0Together with Boeing\u2019s historic Air India announcement last month, these deals will support over one million American jobs in the aerospace supply chain across 44 states.\u00a0 This is a clear win for American workers and enhances America\u2019s global leadership in manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Acquiring these technologically sophisticated aircraft and engines will enable Riyadh Air and Saudia Airlines to provide service for passengers to over 100 destinations in the United States and around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to work with Saudi Arabia and all of our partners in the Middle East to support a more prosperous, secure, and integrated region, which ultimately benefits the American people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/14\/2023 03:01 PM EDT Antony J.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57033,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032\/revisions\/57033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}