Air India may order 10 A380s

Singapore: Airbus wants to sell another 15 A380 superjumbos to Singapore Airlines, even as it lags main rival Boeing in new orders this year and has forecast orders half as much orders in 2008 as last year.
The European planemaker's chief salesman said on Thursday that he is aiming to talk with Singapore Airlines over the purchase of the world's largest passenger jet, and another 20 A330 or A350 widebody planes.
Airbus and Boeing are competing for a slice of the Asian aviation market, projected to become the world's largest in 20 years.
Airbus Chief Operating Office John Leahy said 15 of the 30 A380s that Airbus is targeting to sell this year will be to Asian airlines, and that Airbus is targeting to sell at least 10 A380s to Air India Boeing said it does not make annual forecasts for orders, but expects overall demand for aircraft for the next 20 years to reach 28,600 planes, worth $2.8 trillion. Of this, Boeing expects 8,350 planes to be sold in the Asia Pacific.
"Twenty years from now, 40 percent of all the flights in the world will be within Asia. This will be not too long from now the world's biggest aviation market place," said Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
21/02/08 Reuters/Economic Times

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