Air Astana Orders Airbus And Boeing
Date: Sunday, January 06 @ 12:49:57 PST
Topic: Aviation
Kazakhstan airline Air Astana said on Thursday it had decided to buy 6 single-aisle A320 aircraft from Airbus and 3 wide-body Boeing 787-8s in deals worth a combined USD$850 million at list prices.
The airline, which is 51 percent owned by the Kazakh government and 49 percent by Britain's BAE Systems, said in a statement it had also taken out options for another three of each model.
A spokeswoman for European planemaker Airbus confirmed that Air Astana had signed a memorandum of understanding for the Airbus jets. It was not immediately clear whether the Boeing deal was a similar, provisional, contract or a firm order.
Air Astana began flight operations in May 2002.
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