Wednesday 27 June 2007

QATAR AIRWAYS BOOSTS AIRBUS A350 BY ORDERING 80 UNITS


Qatar Airways one of the fastest growing airlines flying to over 70 destinataions across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Far East and India has confirmed the order of the Airbu A350's turning it to be the A350's single largestt customer.

The airline has also increased the orders of the latest A380 from two to five aircraft.

The A350 is an 'eXtra Wide Body' version of A350 coming in three versions of A350-800/900 and 1000. Qatar Airways is the launch customer of the A350-1000 XWB version. Deliveries will start in 2013 to gradually replace their backbone fleet of A330. The deal was confirmed at the Paris Air Show.

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