Boeing list prices

Fancy an Airbus A380 for your personal transport?  “That will be $389.9m sir.”  Plus or minus, after deciding how you want the interior to be fitted out.  There might be some discount too, it being very unlikely that Emirates paid that price when buying 100 copies. 

The problem is that Boeing is embarrassed.  Air India’s accounts became public last week with the airline noting that it paid just under US$110m for its first 787.  The list price, available on the internet, is US$193m.  Special bank loans can reduce the final fee to as little as US$95m with engines.

Airbus has published its 2012 prices.  John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers, says that this represents a price increase of 3.9% except for the A320Neo Family which rises by an average of 6.1%.

According to Airbus an A318 comes in at US$67.8m, A320Neo US$96.7m, A330-300 US$231m and A350-1000 at US$320.6.  Or you can buy a large cruise ship for much the same money. www.boeing.com/commercial/prices www.airbus.com

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