RENTON, Wash. — Indonesian dancers waving yellow flags highlighted
the rollout ceremony for the first 737-900-E-R. The Indonesian airline Lion
Air is the launch customer for the newest and largest member of the 737
family. It can carry as many as 215 passengers on flights as far as 37-
hundred miles. The airline has ordered 60 of the planes to expand
operations in Asia. More than one-thousand employees and guests filled
a Boeing hangar at the factory in Renton for today’s rollout.