LEAD: The Alaska Air Group, a regional airline company based in Seattle, yesterday announced its largest order ever, agreeing to pay up to $2.5 billion for jets and parts from the McDonnell Douglas Corporation and the Boeing Company. The company, parent of The Alaska Air Group, a regional airline company based in Seattle, yesterday announced its largest order ever, agreeing to pay up to $2.5 billion for jets and parts from the McDonnell Douglas Corporation and the Boeing Company. The company, parent of Alaska Air and Horizon Air, also committed more than $100 million to a stock repurchase program and an employee stock ownership plan. Alaska Air ordered 20 Mc Donnell Douglas MD90-30 airplanes and took options on 20 more. The company also agreed to lease 20 new Boeing 737-400's from the International Lease Finance Corporation and has options to lease four more. Value of the firm orders, including spare parts, is about $1.6 billion, while exercising all options would bring the deal to $2.5 billion. The company announced an immediate buyback of three million common shares, or 22 percent of its outstanding stock, for $20 to $24 each. The company also agreed to buy up to 900,000 shares for an employee stock ownership plan. The stock buyback plan is conditioned on an agreement for International Lease to buy preferred shares of Alaska Air.
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Alaska Airlines reduzierte Jahre später ihre Bestellung für 20 MD-90 und 20 Optionen zuerst auf 10 + 10 und dann folgte eine Stornierung, die auch durch eine Umwandlung in eine Bestellung für sieben weitere MD-83 nicht wirklich kompensiert werden konnte.