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October 12, 2007
Spain's Marsans travel group unveiled a massive USD$7.5 billion deal for 61 new
Airbus planes on Thursday, four of them A380s.
The news comes just days before Airbus delivers the first A380 to Singapore
Airlines following two years of delay in its development. The deal also comes
hot on the heels of British Airways' decision to buy 12 A380s rather than
Boeing's long-haul alternatives. Marsans, which owns Air Comet and Aerolineas
Argentinas, is only the second new European customer for the world's biggest
passenger plane since 2001, and is the first from Spain. The four aircraft,
which can carry up to 853 passengers, will be split equally between Air Comet
and Aerolineas Argentinas.
Privately owned Marsans said the deal is worth USD$7.5 billion at list prices,
making it one of the biggest in Spanish aviation history, though discounts are
common in the industry.Marsans is controlled by Spanish businessmen Gerardo
Diaz Ferran and Gonzalo Pascual, who quit his post as chairman of SAS-owned
Spanair a week ago to launch a takeover bid for the airline -- Spain's second-
biggest carrier.
Thursday's order includes 10 of Airbus's new A350 XWBs, as well as 42 aircraft
from the A320 family and five A330s, which added to 12 A330s bought in December
take the total order to 73.Aerolineas Argentinas spokesman Jorge Molina said
the south American airline could receive 40 of the planes in the coming years.
He said it would start operating the superjumbo by the beginning of 2011,
probably on the Buenos Aires-Madrid route."In 50 years Aerolineas Argentinas
has never had such a strong investment as these 40 planes," said Molina.The
airline was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2001 when Marsans bought the
Argentinian flag carrier from Iberia, but the devaluation of the peso in 2002
and a strong increase in tourism to the country have aided the airline's
recovery.
(Reuters)
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