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For dealmakers, this weeks Paris Air Show will showcase the boom in demand for commercial planes and military technology. What wont be o

Paris air show takes off with biggest ever plane order

The Paris Air Show officially began Monday at the airport in Le Bourget. It was the first show since 2019, and despite an unusual tone, had some excitement in store.

The multibillion-dollar deal for single-aisle planes - the largest ever by number of aircraft - confirmed a Reuters report earlier this month, and eclipsed Air India's provisional purchase of 470 Airbus and Boeing jets earlier this year. The world's largest air show, which alternates with Farnborough in Britain, is at Le Bourget for the first time in four years after the 2021 edition fell victim to the pandemic.

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IndiGo Chief Executive Pieter Elbers stated, "This is just the beginning..." as his company's 500-plane deal takes India's share of plane backlogs to six percent of the industry looking to keep up with the world's fastest-growing aviation market.

PARIS/DELHI :Europe's Airbus secured a historic deal on Monday involving the most jets ever bought by a single airline, with an order for 500 narrowbody jets from Indian budget carrier IndiGo on the opening day of the Paris Airshow.The multibillion-dollar deal eclipses Air India's combined purchase of 470 je

Since then some 17 countries, including the Baltic states, Britain and several eastern European powers, which have traditionally turned to the United States for military hardware, have signed up to the so-called European Sky Shield initiative. But on Monday, Macron said that France, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia and Hungary had signed a letter of intent for the joint purchase of the French Mistral air defence systems, built by missile producer MBDA, confirming an earlier story by Reuters.

PARIS — On the opening day of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee announced that California-based clean energy startup Twelve plans to set up