What this means, Boeing has turned a previous Airbus customer, "flyadeal", into a Boeing customer. This becomes a strong Vote Of Confidence (VOC) for Boeing heading into 2019. The backdrop for these announcements is the Lion Air 737 crash that killed all its 189 passengers. The owner of Lion Air has rebuked Boeing by canceling its order book with the manufacturer. It looks like Boeing has almost replaced those Lion Air outstanding orders since the "accident". More importantly, airlines who are considering a 737 in light of the Lion Air accident are ordering the Boeing single-aisle over an Airbus consideration.
That in itself is a positive signal that Boeing has emphatically beat back any loss of customers in the head to head battle outside of Lion Air's cancelations. Boeing can move past this accident even as the final report on the incident has not yet been published. It appears Boeing has taken corrective actions for mitigating any misunderstandings from lack of sensor situational awareness or how to control a failure under a similar Lion Air mishap scenario it had experienced.
It appears Lion Air knew of the unairworthy condition and did not seek assistance from Boeing on how to address the problems from its previous Max flights for the same Lion Air aircraft. The lack for Lion Air including Boeing on the perceived fault it had encountered, suggests a failure by only Lion air to include all remedies from its own experienced problem. It has fallen on the sward of its own incompetence.
Boeing cannot assume the responsibility of others when others act in an unprofessional manner which leads to a catastrophic aviation incident. Based on the scant public information reported on this crash it is natural to observe Lion Air cannot make a case when it has not addressed its own professional responsibility when knowing an aircraft had a flight problem beforehand and did not include the manufacturer with this problem as the problem exceeded beyond a mere maintenance issue having great consequences.
The legal battle is to attack any defendant having the deepest pockets and that happens to be Boeing and not Lion Air. But the cause of the problem lies with Lion Air's confusion and its lack of gaining direction from Boeing who had not experienced this type of problem nor could foresee a problem of this nature coming.
Lion Air made the decision to launch a flight of an unworthy aircraft full of passengers. Boeing is not excused but becomes more of a victim of Lion Air's own incompetence when it did not involve the maker declaring it an unworthy or "unflyable" 737 Max. Judging from reports, it failed to notify Boeing or solicit a resolution to make it a flight worthy aircraft before embarking on its final flight.
The Lion Air problem is systemic from the top down. The crash could have and should have been prevented if a sound procedural protocol existed and prevented this questioned 737 Max from even flying until all problematic flight conditions were resolved.
Customers who are now signing/firming for 737 Max orders have had time to digest this implication and are now ordering in the face of Lion Air's 737 Max crash that killed all 189 of its passengers. The VOC has made its round trip complete for Boeing with these recent orders.
Lion Air has Failed to "Assume Responsibility Forward To Boeing With This Crash"! In the face of known problems and lack of airworthiness of this one Max aircraft it owned. Lion Air owns this traject mishap.
Counterpoint:
Popular Mechanics Lion Air Summary Report in below link:
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