Airbus orders, commitments total $35 billion at Airshow

[July 14, 2016]  FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Airbus said on Thursday it had won 279 orders and commitments worth $35 billion at list prices at the Farnborough Airshow this week. The deals included firm orders for 197 aircraft worth $26.3 billion.

Airbus sales chief John Leahy said he was not worried about aviation markets overheating and rejected questions raised by rival Boeing <BA.N> over the quality of its order backlog.

(Reporting by Tim Hepher, editing by Sarah Young)

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