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Tunisia: Tunisair Confirms Buying of 16 Airbus Planes, 2000 Jobs Due to Be Created

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Tunisia Online (Tunis)

17 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008

Tunis

Tunisair, the country's national air carriers has confirmed yesterday the buying of 16 Airbus planes.

The confirmation of the deal, signed on July 2008 with the European plane maker, involves three A350-800s, three A330-200s and ten A320s. The confirmation was announced in a communiqué released by Tunisair on Wednesday.

The order is part of an ambitious plan to modernise and expand Tunisair's fleet to enable the carrier to meet its program in setting up in the long term long distance flights to North America and Asia . Most of the planes are expected to be handed over to the Tunisian national carrier by 2011.

Tunisair already flies 21 Airbus planes, among the 30 planes making up its fleet. On the other hand, a provision of the contract commits the Airbus to set up 2000 jobs, in compensation of employments originally due to created by the French aeronautic company Latécoère in Tunisia .

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Following the terms of the contract, Airbus will have to pay some 16 million dollars in compensation money, in case on non- respect of the terms of the contract involving the setting up of 2000 jobs in Tunisia .

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