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China buys 23 Airbus jets

 

1 hour, 20 minutes ago Business - AFP

 

 

 

BEIJING (AFP) - China signed a contract to buy 23 A319, A320 and A321 commercial jets from aircraft manufacturer Airbus in a deal worth close to 1.0 billion euros (1.34 billion dollars).

 

 

 

"This is a firm order. This is new," Dietmar Staffett, a German government official accompanying Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on an official visit to China, told AFP on Monday.

 

 

"There are 23 planes, they are all from the A319, A320, A321 family. The deal is worth a little less than a billion euros," he said.

 

 

The contract was signed between the European aircraft-maker and the China Aviation Supply Corporation, a trading company under the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

 

 

It was not clear which airline would be using the planes.

 

 

However, no deals were signed for Airbus's future A380 superjumbo, the sale of which are seen as paramount to the company's China plans.

 

 

German government sources said talks over the purchase of the A380 have not been completed and are unlikely to be so before year-end.

 

 

Many had expected an A380 deal to be inked during the visit to China by French President Jacques Chirac in October or at the Zhuhai international airshow in the southern province of Guangdong last month.

 

 

The Wall Street Journal said last week that Beijing was holding up the deal because of the EU's refusal to lift the 15-year-old ban on arms sales to China. This was strenuously denied by Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui.

 

 

Monday's deal was the third contract for Airbus in China this year.

 

 

In June, the European aircraft-maker signed a two billion dollar contract with China Eastern Airlines for 20 A330-300 long-range planes.

 

 

This was followed in October when flagship carrier Air China ordered six medium-range A319 airplanes.

 

 

It has been forecast that China will become the world's second largest commercial aviation market after the United States, flying a 2,800-strong fleet of planes, within 20 years.

 

 

To get there, China's airlines will require nearly 2,300 new airplanes by 2023 and will spend some 183 billion dollars to quadruple their fleets, rival aircraft-maker Boeing said at the recent Zhuhai international airshow in southern China.

 

 

Airbus has sold more than 200 planes in China since the mid-1980s, rapidly catching up with rival Boeing over the past five years, but still lagging behind in terms of total planes in use.

 

 

In other agreements signed between China and Germany Monday, industrial conglomerate Siemens sealed an order by China for 180 locomotives worth up to 360 million euros (480 million dollars), the German government official said.

 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...us_041206114943

 

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