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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador explained Monday he has now primarily supplied up on his quixotic bid to market off the presidential jet, and will lease it out for weddings or events.
López Obrador admitted the authorities has not been equipped to market the Boeing 787 jet, which he phone calls way too deluxe and refuses to use.
As a substitute, the president explained he will merely give the jet to a armed service-led organization that will run the new Mexico Metropolis Felipe Angeles airport. The aircraft will be parked there and will be readily available for individuals to lease to maintain in-flight events aboard.
“The rental expenses will spend for its bills and upkeep,” López Obrador explained. “It will be open up to the general public if any individual wishes it, since they are receiving married … and they want to carry their pals and household … or coming of age events, birthdays.”
Mexican households often toss elaborate events for their daughters when they switch fifteen.
Due to the fact 2018, López Obrador has tried using to entice businesses and organization executives to get the jet, and even held a symbolic raffle for it.
López Obrador prides himself on his austerity, flies industrial flights and has manufactured only one particular excursion overseas.
He has explained the jet is tough to market since it is way too specialised and manufactured-to-buy. He explained the authorities would nonetheless be open up to provides for the aircraft, but following nearly 3 1/2 yrs, that risk looks distant.
The aircraft was acquired for $two hundred million and was employed by the preceding president, Enrique Peña Nieto. It has been tough to market since it is configured to have only eighty individuals and has a complete presidential suite with a non-public bathtub. Authorities say it would be high priced to reconfigure into a standard passenger jet that would have up to three hundred travellers.
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