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VW Cuts Back Jet-Set Lifestyle With Plans to Sell Airbus Plane
- Automaker to continue flights among brands with smaller planes
- CEO seeking to cut costs in wake of emissions cheating scandal
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Volkswagen AG executives will soon have to lower their expectations for company flights.
Chief Executive Officer Matthias Mueller announced on Thursday that he will get rid of the automaker’s Airbus A319 as part of a broader plan to rein in costs in the wake of the emissions cheating scandal. The jet, a common sight in the fleets of commercial airlines, is the largest in a group of aircraft that VW uses to shuttle top executives among the group’s 12 brands and more than 100 factories.