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Kingfisher adds another 15 ATR 72-500s to fleet
India’s Kingfisher Airlines exercised options on another 15 ATR 72-500s yesterday during French President Jacques Chirac’s official visit to the subcontine

India’s Kingfisher Airlines exercised options on another 15 ATR 72-500s yesterday during French President Jacques Chirac’s official visit to the subcontinent. The estimated $270 million deal included options on another 20 airplanes and increased to 35 the number of ATR 72s on which Kingfisher has placed firm orders. Next month Kingfisher starts taking delivery of the first of 20 ATR 72-500s ordered just before last November’s Dubai airshow and scheduled for delivery over a three-year period.