Summary AirAsia is one of Airbus' biggest clients, with several hundred aircraft on order.
PARIS (AFP) - Low-cost Malaysian airline AirAsia announced Wednesday that it was ordering 25 long-range A330-300 aircraft with a catalogue price of nearly $6 billion (4.4 billion euros).
The planes will join the fleet of AirAsia s long-haul unit AirAsia X, Airbus said at a joint news conference in Paris.
Airbus said it was the biggest single order for the widebody twin-engine aircraft from an airline. AirAsia is one of Airbus biggest clients, with several hundred aircraft on order.
In June 2011 the Malaysian company ordered 200 A320 Neo planes with a catalogue price of $18.24 billion, one of the biggest ever orders of commercial aircraft.
