Airbus wins 60-plane China order after EU retreat on CO2 charges

Bloomberg: Airbus SAS won an order for 60 A320 planes from state-backed China Eastern Airlines Corp. (670), less than two weeks after the European Union backed down in a dispute with the government in Beijing over jetliner-emission levies. China Eastern received a "substantive" discount to the list price of $5.4 billion for the single-aisle planes, it said in a statement from Shanghai yesterday, adding that Toulouse, France-based Airbus also agreed to take 18 regional jets off its hands. EU plans to impose...

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