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Virgin Atlantic in talks for 50 Airbus planes

Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:32pm EDT

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LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) - Virgin Atlantic [VA.UL] is in talks with European planemaker Airbus (EAD.PA) to buy 50 A350 aircraft from 2014, a company spokesman said on Monday.

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The spokesman told Reuters it considered the A350 a "strong competitor" to the Boeing 787 (BA.N). He added it was not yet clear how many of the aircraft would be replacements for older planes.

Virgin earlier said it would take delivery of 10 Airbus A330s in a $ 2.1 billion deal. [ID:nLM711546] (Reporting by John Bowker; Editing by Gary Hill)

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