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Old March 19th, 2004, 06:03 PM
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Default Spirit Airlines to purchase Airbus jets

taqai wrote:
Spirit Airlines said it will place an order today for 35 jets from
Airbus Industrie for about $2 billion with an option to buy 60 more.
The total deal is valued at about $5 billion.


What is happening at Boeing ? Are they asleep at the switch ? With the
devalued US dollar, one would think that Boeing would have had a big advantage
over Airbus especially for domestic USA sales.