Lufthansa to spend $7.5bn on 22 new long-haul aircraft

Lufthansa Group is to buy 22 “latest-generation” long-haul aircraft from Airbus and Boeing. The orders, for ten Airbus A350-1000s, five Airbus A350-900s and seven Boeing 787-9s, will come to $7.5bn based on current list prices, the German carrier group said. The 22 jets are part of a bigger set of orders “over the next years” for 108 long-haul aircraft and around 200 airplanes in all, as the group’s carriers withdraw six older subfleets “in the medium term”. Lufthansa said it expects to receive the first of the 22 aircraft by the middle of the decade but added that it is