Sunday, 17 June 2007

US Airways to Order 90 Airbus Planes Valued at $10.7 Billion, Person Says

(Bloomberg) -- US Airways Group Inc. plans to order
at least 90 Airbus SAS aircraft valued at more than $10.7
billion to replace planes and add long-range jets, a person with
direct knowledge of the sale said.

US Airways will purchase about 60 single-aisle Airbus A320
aircraft, eight wide-body A330s and 22 long-range A350 XWB jets,
said the person, who asked not to be identified before today's
announcement at the Paris air show. US Airways, the seventh-
largest U.S. carrier, chose the Airbus planes over Boeing Co.'s
737 and 787 Dreamliner models after months of negotiations.


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