Indian airlines to buy 43 Airbus jets
07/09/2005 - 09:00:07Indian Airlines has agreed to buy 43 Airbus jets for $2.2bn (€1.75bn), Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today.
The prime minister announced the deal at an India-EU summit in New Delhi, saying: “we hope to raise our co-operation in the aviation sector.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what kind of jets were involved in the deal.
The deal follows news yesterday during visit by European leaders that China Southern Airlines agreed to buy 10 Airbus A330 jetliners.
