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TAA to use Airbus next month
TAA's first Airbus 300 will
be put into service on Aus
tralian domestic routes on
July 22, the first wide-bodied
passenger jet to do so.
The 269-seater aircraft will ar
rive in Australia from France on
July 13 and will make.its first
commercial run on the Mel
bourne-Sydney route nine days
later.
A consortium from France,
England, Belgium, Holland,
Spain and Germany is respon
sible for production of the Air
bus, five of which have been
ordered by TAA. The first four,
plus spares, cost TAA $200 mil
lion.
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