FILE PHOTO: Jet2.com aircraft boarding stairs are stored at Stansted airport in Stansted, Britain June 30, 2017. Picture taken through glass. REUTERS/Russell Boyce/File Photo
July 28, 2021
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) – British airline and holiday group Jet2 is in advanced talks to buy dozens of narrowbody passenger jets, with Europe’s Airbus seen as the front-runner in a potential blow to Jet2’s current supplier Boeing, industry sources said.
If confirmed, the rare defection by a budget airline to a new aircraft supplier could involve around 50 Airbus jets, worth approximately $5 billion before widespread airline industry discounts of at least 50%, one of the sources told Reuters.
“As a successful airline and tour operator, we are constantly in discussion with different aircraft manufacturers – this is part of our normal course of business,” a spokesperson for Jet2 said.
Airbus and Boeing both declined comment.
(Reporting by Tim Hepher, Sarah Young, editing by Louise Heavens)
Source: One America News Network
