All Nippon Airways agree to buy 3 A380 superjumbos

Airbus A380: Visitors look at an Emirates airline’s Airbus A380 dislayed at the Dubai Air Show recently. Airbus has suffered a dearth of orders for its largets plane, with list price of US428mil and typically seats about 525 passengers. – AFP

TOULOUSE: Airbus Group SE won an agreement from ANA Holdings Inc, Japan’s largest airline, to buy three of its A380 superjumbos, said a person familiar with the plan, giving the European planemaker a welcome vote of confidence for an aircraft that hadn’t won a new airline customer in three years.

The parent of All Nippon Airways Co. will take delivery of the planes from 2018, with plans to use them on its Tokyo to Hawaii route, a popular destination for Japanese tourists, another person said.