Dubai-based airline will purchase Boeing and Airbus long-haul aircraft in deal estimated to be worth over $100bn.
Al-Jazeera - 17 Nov 2013
Emirates Airline has placed an order for 150 Boeing 777X long-haul
jets, as well as a separate 50 Airbus A380 airliners, in a deal said to
be worth over $100bn.
With a previous order of 90 Airbus jets, the agreement will bring
total orders for the world's largest aircraft to 140, Emirates chief
executive, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum, announced at the Dubai air
show on Sunday.
The Dubai-based carrier said the Boeing contract was valued at $76bn
and that the new deal with Airbus exceeded the $18bn agreed at the last
event in 2011.
Boeing launched the long-awaited new version of its 777 long-haul jet
with 259 orders from the top three Gulf carriers, including Dubai's
Emirates, Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways, as well as
Germany's Lufthansa which has already tentatively committed to buy 34 of
the planes.
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