07:41 AM EDT, 06/03/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Qatar Airways Chief Executive Badr Mohammed Al Meer confirmed Monday that the carrier is in talks with Boeing ( BA ) and Airbus to buy wide-body jets, Reuters reported.
Meer told reporters that a Bloomberg report that the airline was in talks to to buy some 200 A350 and Boeing 777X wide-body aircraft was largely correct, according to Reuters.
Meer said the talks were for a three-digit order, but said the figure cited in the report was off by around 30%, the report said.
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