Airbus SE won deals to sell Dutch carrier KLM and Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd. scores of single-aisle jets, prying away two of Boeing ’s most loyal customers.
Air France-KLM Group placed an order for up to 160 of Airbus’s A320neo family of jets to replace aging Boeing jets at both KLM and its discount unit, Transavia. Qantas earlier Thursday said it had agreed to buy 40 single-aisle, or narrow-body, jets from Airbus with purchase rights for another 94 jets over the next 10 years as it phases out older Boeing jets.
