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Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury and VietJet chief executive Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao celebrate a firm order for 15 A321XLRs in 2019. (Photo: Airbus)
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury and VietJet chief executive Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao celebrate a firm order for 15 A321XLRs in 2019. (Photo: Airbus)

When VietJet Air president and CEO Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao announced an order for 30 Airbus A321s worth $3.6 billion at Dubai Airshow 2015, her presence proved to be one of the event's highlights, as a dearth of orders only served to underline the extent of the questions that underpinned the blockbuster outings posted by UAE-based airlines at the show two years earlier.


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