AMERICAN AIRLINES TO ANNOUNCE BUYS, NEWSPAPER SAYS
<American Airlines Inc> is expected to
announce purchases from <Airbus Industrie>, Boeing Co <BA> and
General Electric Co <GE> amounting to 2.5 billion dlrs, the New
York Times said.
    The paper quoted unnamed industry sources as saying
American will buy 25 wide-bodied planes from Airbus, 15
wide-bodies from Boeing and 80 engines from GE. It said
American split the order between Airbus and Boeing to get
better prices and conditions.
    It said the 80 CF6-80C2 engines are worth more than five
mln dlrs each.
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