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- BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesAEROSPACEA Fleet of Rent-a-Jets
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- As airlines scramble to expand their fleets and replace
- aging jets, many have found that renting planes can be a better
- deal than buying them. The chief beneficiary of the trend is GPA
- Group of Shannon, Ireland, the world's largest jet-leasing
- company. Last week GPA confirmed its dominance by ordering 308
- new planes valued at $17 billion, the biggest such purchase in
- history. Seattle's Boeing will supply 182 jets worth $9.4
- billion, Europe's Airbus Industrie 54 for $4.3 billion, and St.
- Louis-based McDonnell Douglas 72 for $3.1 billion.
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- The huge deal brings GPA's total orders and options to 819
- aircraft valued at $30 billion. The busy aircraft
- manufacturers, whose backlogs are as long as five years, contend
- that the GPA deal will not increase production delays.
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