Qatar Airways set to expand fleet

 
Fast growing Gulf airline is expected to order some 60 planes from either Boeing or Airbus at Paris Air Show.

 
DUBA - Qatar Airways, the fast growing Gulf airline, is expected to order some 60 new planes during the Paris Air Show which opens June 13, an aviation industry source said Wednesday.

The airline, which surprised the last air show in 2003 at Le Bourget, near Paris, with an order for 32 new Airbus planes, is negotiating with the European aerospace giant and its US rival, Boeing, a "new order of some 60 aeroplanes", the Doha-based source said.

"The deal will comprise either the new Boeing 787 or Airbus's A350, or both," depending on the final outcome of the negotiations, he said, requesting anonimity.

"Negotiations with Boeing and Airbus have reached an advanced stage," he said.

Qatar Airways lays claim to be one of the world's fastest-growing airlines, operating a fleet of 40 aircraft from its Doha hub. Founded in 1994, it is owned equally by Qatar's government and private investors.

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