American Air will buy 10 more MD-80 jetliners.
Douglas Aircraft, a unit of McDonnell Douglas, said that American Airlines has exercised options to purchase the more fuel-efficient aircraft. The transaction is worth about $200 million. In February, 1984, American agreed to buy 67 MD-80s and took options on 100 more. The entire package was valued at about $3.3 billion.
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