{"id":140164,"date":"2023-06-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=140164"},"modified":"2023-06-05T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:10:13","slug":"airbus-heads-towards-500-jet-indigo-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2023\/06\/airbus-heads-towards-500-jet-indigo-order.html","title":{"rendered":"Airbus heads towards 500-jet IndiGo order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>IndiGo<\/strong>, India&#8217;s largest airline, is reportedly close to placing a record order for 500 Airbus A320 family aircraft, industry sources said Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European planemaker has emerged as front-runner for an order eclipsing Air India&#8217;s historic provisional purchase of 470 jets in February, the sources said on the sidelines of the International Air Transport Association&#8217;s (IATA) annual meeting in Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/en\/2023\/05\/lufthansa-orders-four-additional-airbus-a350-900s.html\">Lufthansa orders four additional Airbus A350-900s<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a deal would be worth some $50 billion at the most recently published Airbus list prices, but would typically be worth less than half this after widespread airline industry discounts for bulk deals, according to aircraft analysts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airbus and Boeing are also still competing in separate talks to sell 25 A330neo or Boeing 787 wide-body jets to the same airline, the industry sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IndiGo is already one of Airbus&#8217;s largest customers and has so far ordered a total of 830 Airbus A320-family jets of which nearly 500 are still to be delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Hepher, Aditi Shah, Joanna Plucinska &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/airbus-heads-towards-500-jet-indigo-order-sources-2023-06-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer 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