Airbus gets 8 orders
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PARIS - Thai Airways has ordered six of Airbus&#39; new 555-seater A380 jumbo jets and two smaller A340 wide-bodied jets, the European aircraft maker said Friday.
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British Airways  announced a  plane order worth $8.2 billion at list prices on Thursday,  including 12 A380 planes from Airbus  and 24 787  airliners from Boeing Co .
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Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa said it is ordering Airbus and Boeing aircraft worth about $6.9 billion at list prices as it expands and modernizes its fleet.
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British Airways said on Thursday it had ordered 12 Airbus superjumbo A380s and 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes.
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AIRBUS has landed its second- biggest aircraft order, after the budget operator Air Berlin ordered 70 Airbus A320s in a deal worth Â£2.
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Airbus SAS, the world&#39;s largest maker of airplanes, said it received firm orders from China Eastern Airlines and Air China, two of the country&#39;s main carriers, to buy 26 planes.
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Orient Thai Airlines plans to order 20 new aircraft, eight Boeing  787-9s and 12 Boeing 737-900s, at a cost of $2.5 billion in April 2008, chairman Udom Tantiprasongchai said on Wednesday.
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Airbus has won an order worth $6.9  billion from leasing company AWAS Ltd for as many as 100  planes, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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PARIS -- Qatar Airways extended a much-needed boost to Airbus on Wednesday, ordering another 20 A350s to become the European jetmaker's largest customer for the wide-body jet with a total order of 80 planes worth a listing price of $16 billion.
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Ryanair has ordered 32 next generation Boeing 737-800 planes at a cost of 2.25 billion dollars (1.78 billion euros) at catalogue price.
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European aircraft maker Airbus took almost as many orders as its US rival Boeing last year, the chief executive of its parent company EADS, Louis Gallois, said here on Thursday.
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Turkish Airlines signed a 2.8-billion-dollar (2.22-billion-euro) contract with Airbus here to purchase 36 planes here on Tuesday to bolster its ageing fleet.
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Airbus said on Wednesday it expects the market for aircraft to cool and new orders to halve to 700 this year after years of strong demand from airlines took its order book to a record 3,600 planes.
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The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus hopes to win 20 new orders from at least two new airlines for its A380 superjumbo this year, its commercial director has said.
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Boeing regained some ground in its battle with Airbus yesterday when it won a $7.35billion order from Singapore Airlines for 31 aircraft.
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PARIS -- European aircraft builder Airbus believes it will deliver more aircraft than Boeing Co. at least through 2006, according to recent projections given by Airbus to suppliers.
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Airbus said it trailed Boeing Co. in logging new orders last year by a total of 72 civilian jets, but beat its U.S. rival in terms of deliveries.