Delta To Buy 100 Airbus Jets With Sticker Price Over $12.7B

A Delta airplane sits at a gate at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Delta announced Thursday that it will order 100 Airbus A321neo jets with a sticker price of $12.7 billion.

David Goldman / Associated Press file

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has picked Europe’s Airbus over Boeing for a huge order of new jets.

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Delta said Thursday that it will order 100 Airbus A321neo jets with a sticker price of $12.7 billion and take an option to buy another 100 jets, a deal that Chicago-based Boeing had hoped to land.