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Airbus snags $1.5 billion order for six A350 Prestige bizliners

Airbus received its largest-ever order for corporate jetliners with the placing of a $1.5 billion order for six A350 Prestige aircraft by Jeddah, Saudi Ara

By Ian Sheppard

May 20, 2008

Airbus received its largest-ever order for corporate jetliners with the placing of a $1.5 billion order for six A350 Prestige aircraft by Jeddah, Saudi Arabia-based MAZ Aviation.

The aircraft, one A350-800 and five A350-900s for delivery between 2015 and 2019, are for separate private customers in the Middle East who are already owners of Airbus aircraft, said MAZ Aviation founder and chairman Mohammed Al-Zeer, as he signed the six contracts on behalf of his clients during the first day of EBACE 2008. All six aircraft will be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines and will have VIP cabins, although the choice of outfitters has yet to be announced.

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