Riyadh Air would be ready to buy Boeing (BA) aircraft destined for Chinese airlines if they are not delivered due to the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, Reuters’ Hadeel Al Sayegh and Manya Saini report. “What we’ve done… is made it quite clear to Boeing, should that ever happen, and the keyword there is should, we’ll happily take them all,” Riyadh Air CEO Tony Douglas said in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market conference.
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