ZAGREB, 27 Jan (Hina) - Croatia Airlines and Airbus Industries signed a contract on the purchase of six planes worth US $272 million, in Zagreb on Monday.
ZAGREB, 27 Jan (Hina) - Croatia Airlines and Airbus Industries
signed a contract on the purchase of six planes worth US $272
million, in Zagreb on Monday. #L#
Croatia Airlines General Director Martin Katicic and Airbus
Industrie General Director Volker von Tein signed the contract in
the presence of Croatia's Premier Zlatko Matesa and the French
Minister of Transport and Tourism, Bernard Pons.
Croatia Airlines purchased six A319 planes. Each of them costs
42 million dollars. The contract signed today also includes reserve
parts worth US $25 million.
'Croatia Airlines has long been considering all advantages of
offers for the purchase of Airbus and Boeing planes and in the end
it decided on Airbus offer as the better one', Katicic told Hina,
adding that reasons for the purchase of Airbus planes were of
business nature.
The contract includes the delivery of six A319 planes in the
period from 1998 to 2000 as well as options for the next ten planes
by the year 2006.
The construction of the first plane for Croatia Airlines will
start immediately after the signing of the contract in Airbus
plants in Hamburg. The first plane will be delivered in January
1998.
Forty per cent of the planes' value will be paid with Croatian
products, a statement from Croatia Airlines said.
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