Qatar strikes $17bn Airbus deal
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Qatar Airways confirms a $17bn order for 80 Airbus A350 planes and three A380 super-jumbos at the Paris air show.
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BANGALORE, India  - European consortium Airbus Industrie won its second deal in a week from India&#39;s growing budget airline business, selling 30 Airbus A320 aircraft to Air Deccan.
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Airbus won a contract from EgyptAir for five 330-200s, a deal valued at $881 million at list prices. The order from the expanding Egyptian carrier includes options for an additional three planes, Airbus said. EgyptAir, the state-owned airline based in Cairo, said in a preliminary announcement Aug. 15 that two A330-200F planes to be used for training were part of the order, which will bring to 12 the number of A330-200s in EgyptAirâs fleet. Airbus is based in Toulouse, France.
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The US aerospace giant signs a deal worth up to $7.2bn to supply 60 of its new Dreamliner airlines to six Chinese carriers.
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China signed a contract to buy 23 A319, A320 and A321 commercial jets from aircraft manufacturer Airbus in a deal worth close to 1.0 billion euros (1.34 billion dollars).
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Qantas Airways said Thursday it had accepted an $8.64 billion takeover offer from a private equity consortium including Australia's Macquarie Bank and the Texas Pacific Group _ one of the biggest corporate buyouts in Australian history.
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Qantas Airways Ltd. , Australia's top airline, is expected to announce a takeover offer of around A$10.9 billion (US$8.55 billion) from a consortium led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.  this week, possibly as early as Wednesday, sources said.
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Airbus, the European aircraft maker, has scored a strategic victory over its US rival Boeing by capturing a key order for 40 new aircraft from AirAsia, the fast-growing Malaysian low-cost carrier.
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Oil-rich Gulf Arab state Qatar has made a bid approach for J Sainsbury Plc, which newspapers said valued Britain's third-biggest supermarket group at about 12 billion pounds ($24.5 billion), including debt.
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Airbus landed another blow in its battle with rival aircraft maker Boeing with an order which could be worth up to $6bn (more than Â£3bn).
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Airbus has won an order from Kuwaiti airline Jazeera for four A320 aircraft, with an option on four more, the Eurpean aircraft maker said.
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China Southern Airlines reveals it has placed orders to purchase 45 new jets - worth a total of $3.7bn.
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Business & money: The British defence giant has secured an order for 72 Eurofighter Typhoons in a contract worth Â£20bn over the next 20 years.
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Boeing Co  won an order from Bahrain's Gulf Air for as many as 24 of its 787 aircraft, worth as much as $6 billion, according to Gulf Air, which also agreed an initial request for eight Airbus A320s.
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The Qatar Investment Authority said Thursday it had acquired a 20 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange, the same day that Borse Dubai announced a deal to acquire the Nasdaq Stock Market's 28 percent stake in the LSE.
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Norwegian firm Hydro and Qatar's state energy company signed a deal to build one of world's largest aluminium plants in the gas-rich Gulf state at a cost of three billion dollars.
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Britain&#39;s defence giant BAE bought Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan an Airbus plane under a multi-billion pound arms deal and is still paying the costs of flying it, the Guardian newspaper said Friday.