Airbus gets biggest order ever from Indonesian airline

AP/Washington Times ^ | March 18, 2013 | Sarah DiLorenzo and Sylvie Corbet

[Abathar]

PARIS (AP) — Airbus signed its biggest deal ever on Monday, an order from Indonesia’s Lion Air worth 18.4 billion euros ($24 billion) that French President Francois Hollande said should inspire the struggling French economy and all of Europe.

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Lion Air is buying 169 A320s and 65 A321 jets. The first planes will be delivered in 2014, and most of them will be outfitted with a new, more fuel-efficient engine that Airbus has developed recently.

[Abathar]

This was a nice order that Boeing had a chance to grab but missed. I wonder just how far Airbus discounted in price to land it, be interesting to see the bottom line after it's all done.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The 320 is an old design.
But the batteries seem to work pretty well.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

This is GOOD news for Mobile AL where Airbus is building a new (Non Union) Assembly plant. Many of these planes will be built there.

[ltc8k6]

They also ordered 230 or so 737’s recently.