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Lufthansa wants to buy 100 new planes
BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's biggest airline Lufthansa is considering a multi-billion-euro purchase of some 100 new planes to replace part of its aging fleet.
"A rather large order" for aircraft will be made in the autumn, the airline's chief pilot, Juergen Raps, said in an internal publication "Flightcrew Info", according to an advance copy of an article to appear in Sunday's edition of the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
The first decisions could be made during a meeting of the supervisory board on September 20.
According to the newspaper, Lufthansa is in negotiation with US aircraft maker Boeing and its European arch-competitor Airbus, as well as the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer and Canada's Bombardier.
The German airline wants to replace 30 of its Boeing 747 and 29 of its Airbus A340 aircraft with long-haul planes, as well as 62 of its Boeing 737 with European aircraft, the newspaper said.
It added that Lufthansa also wants to replace several of its 83 A320 planes, and may buy up to 60 Embraer for its domestic flights.
The Sunday newspaper also reports that Lufthansa is thinking about creating a low-cost subsidiary for the Italian market called Italianwings</u>, similar to its budget airline, Germanwings, for its domestic market.
Italy has become a bigger market for Lufthansa due to the financial troubles of the Italian national carrier Alitalia, the paper said.
In another article to appear in Der Spiegel Monday, the German magazine said that for long-haul jets, Lufthansa is interested in the new model Airbus A380 superjumbo jet as well as the current model 747-8 from Boeing, and for its medium-haul fleet, it is debating between the Airbus A350 and Boeing's 787 and 777 planes.