{"id":4956,"date":"2019-06-12T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2019-06-12T08:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:43:15","slug":"saudi-arabian-airlines-close-to-placing-airbus-aircraft-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4956","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabian Airlines Close to Placing Airbus Aircraft Order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PARIS (Reuters) &#8211; Saudi Arabian Airlines is close to placing a multi-billion-dollar order for aircraft at least partly involving Airbus jets, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The carrier, known as Saudia, has been negotiating with both Airbus and Boeing for wide-body jets for months and its chief executive told Air Transport World in March that a decision for planes like the Airbus A350 or Boeing 787 was expected soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order for wide-body aircraft, which could also include a number of smaller A320-family narrow-body aircraft, may be announced at the Paris Airshow, the people said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airbus declined comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudia Arabian Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airbus and Boeing are battling for wide-body aircraft orders worth well over $10 billion as the clock ticks towards next week&#8217;s Paris Airshow, industry sources said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Tim Hepher, Alexander Cornwell; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/a330.jpg?fit=640%2C360\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/a330.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/a330-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/a330-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/a330-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabian Airlines is close to placing a multi-billion-dollar order for aircraft at least partly involving Airbus jets, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,4813,89,799,2203,1397,868,1103],"tags":[42,220,49,539,47,464,118,2398,160,1864,41,2170,207,589,3762,412,995,100,2715,1288,2397,3309,1691,1658,1863,2755],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-42","tag-a320","tag-a350","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-aircraft","tag-airlines","tag-arabian","tag-aviation","tag-body","tag-boeing","tag-family","tag-france","tag-jet","tag-narrow","tag-news","tag-order","tag-paris","tag-place","tag-reuters","tag-saudi","tag-show","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-wide","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}