Private airline Airblue on Thursday signed an agreement with Airbus SAS for procurement of 10 aircraft at a cost of around $790 million. A statement from Airblue said, the new fleet would include eight Airbus A320-200s and two Airbus A330-200s. Currently, Airblue operates three A320 aircraft and is the first operator of the Airbus A320 planes in Pakistan.
Airblue, which started operations in 2004, is one of the three private domestic carriers alongside state-run Pakistan International Airlines, which dominates both the country's passenger and cargo markets.
The statement said the deal with Airbus had been made possible by the recent allocation of international routes to the private airlines by the government. It said the new A320 aircraft would be used on domestic and regional routes, while A330 would be used for the newly allocated routes to Britain.
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