Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg is expected to join President Donald Trump on his visit to China next week, a source familiar with the planemaker’s plans told CNBC on Thursday.
Trump is currently set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14 and 15.
Ortberg signaled in an earnings call late last month that China could soon place an order for a “big number” of Boeing planes, breaking a yearslong drought for the company.
But any new deal with China is “100% dependent” on U.S.-Chinese relations, including the outcome of the Trump-Xi summit, Ortberg said.
China in March was closing in on an agreement to order up to 500 of Boeing’s 737 Max jets, Bloomberg reported at the time.
The order was set to be unveiled during Trump’s China trip, which was originally set to take place in late March and early April. But the travel plan was delayed at the U.S.’s request in light of the Iran war, which began on Feb. 28, according to Trump.
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— CNBC’s Leslie Josephs contributed to this report.