Delta Favors Airbus Over Boeing for Order of 100 Jets
- Value of deal, before discounts, could be about $13 billion
- Delta plans to use Pratt & Whitney engines in the new planes
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Delta Air Lines Inc. is leaning toward Airbus SE over Boeing Co. for an order of about 100 single-aisle jets that will be announced after its board makes a decision Wednesday, people familiar with the matter said.
The negotiations include Airbus’s longest narrow-body, the A321neo, said the people, who asked not to be named because the talks are private. A deal, which could be valued at about $13 billion at list prices, would mark a victory for the European planemaker over Boeing’s newest 737, the Max 10.