Spirit Airlines to buy 100 Airbus A320neo family aircraft

Spirit Airlines said Monday it will buy 100 Airbus A320neo-family jets to be delivered through 2027, with options to purchase up to 50 additional aircraft. The deal includes a mix of Airbus A319, A320, and A321 models, the company said. The purchase agreement finalises an October provisional deal for the aircraft, when Spirit picked European planes despite Washington imposing tariffs on them. Depending on the number of each variant of the A320 single-aisle family chosen, the deal could be worth US$11b to $12b at the most recent 2018 Airbus list prices, but such deals typically involve discounts of at least 50%. Washington has imposed 10% tariffs on some of the planes Airbus offers to US carriers, as part of a long-running transatlantic trade dispute over aircraft subsidies. <br/>