P.M. BRIEFING : Swissair Orders 26 Airbus Craft
From Times Wire Services
ZURICH, Switzerland —
Swissair, Switzerland’s flag carrier, today announced that it will buy 26 new aircraft made by the European Airbus consortium in preference to ones made by McDonnell Douglas Corp.
The company said it had taken out options on an additional 26 Airbus aircraft to replace its aging short-haul fleet of MD-81s.
A statement said the investment was worth the equivalent of about $1.8 billion, the largest in Swissair’s 60-year history.
The statement said the firm order consisted of seven A320s with a 133-seat capacity and 19 170-seat A321s. It said the first of these would be delivered in January, 1995, and the last in March, 1998.
