Thai Airways Is in Talks to Buy 30 Airbus A350 Jets, Bangkok Post Reports

Thai Airways International Pcl, the nation’s biggest carrier, is in talks with Airbus SAS to buy as many as 30 next-generation A350 jets and an additional six A380 aircraft, the Bangkok Post reported, citing the companies.

Airbus could deliver the A350 aircraft to Thai Air by 2017 at the earliest, the report said, citing Airbus’s Southeast Asia Sales Director, Jean-Jacques Boissin.

The report didn’t say when Thai Air may decide on the plane order, which could have a market value of as much as $9.1 billion, according to the newspaper.

To contact the reporter on this story: Tony Jordan in Singapore at tjordan3@bloomberg.net

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