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United To Buy 270 Boeing And Airbus Jets In Its Largest-Ever Order

Published June 29, 2021 at 12:33 PM CDT

United Airlines is purchasing 200 Boeing 737 MAX planes and 70 larger Airbus planes in a gamble on the future of air travel post-pandemic.

Host Peter O’Dowd speaks with Here & Now transportation analyst Seth Kaplan about the largest plane order in the last decade.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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