It is revamping its fleet with new, fuel-efficient planes like the Airbus A330 and Boeing 787.
Airbus's competing model is essentially a version of its successful A330 with a new pair of wings.
The Airbus A330 went down about three hours after beginning what was to have been an 11-hour flight.
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At first Airbus sought to compete with Boeing's all-new design using an upgraded version of its successful A330.
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It includes an order for 42 Airbus A320 aircraft and 18 A330 planes.
The larger A330-300 aircraft from Airbus entered service in 1993 and has a capacity of up to 335 passengers.
The paper said Airbus, the maker of the plane, would issue A330 jets with new advice on flying in storms.
The Airbus A330 jet with 228 people aboard crashed on June 1 about 930 miles off the coast of Brazil.
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The Airbus A330-200, which was bought second-hand and refurbished, has a double bedroom with en-suite bathroom immediately behind the cockpit.
Le Monde newspaper reported that Airbus was sending a warning to operators of A330 jets with new advice on flying in storms.
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Last year, an A330-303 was forced to make an emergency landing in Australia after a sudden change in altitude injured 74 passengers.
The Airbus A330 went into a sustained stall, signaled by a warning message and strong buffeting of the aircraft, the report said.
Airbus officials have said they might fit 7E7 engines on the A330, cutting the operating advantage, though questions have arisen over related engineering costs.
Qatar Airways is scheduled to announce a deal on Thursday also expected to include Airbus planes such as the A330-200 model which it already operates.
It now has nine Airbus A330 passenger jets in its fleet and is taking delivery of seven more this year and an equal number next year.
Virgin Atlantic's first A330-300 aircraft, which took flight in April, has a new entertainment system that lets flyers rate in-flight movies via the seatback touch screen.
Meanwhile, a report in France suggested the pilots were perhaps flying at the "wrong speed" for the violent thunderstorm they flew into early on Monday before the Airbus A330's systems failed.
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Singapore Airlines said the orders will also help maintain its strategy of keeping a young and modern fleet, with the A350s ultimately replacing older Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 jets on medium- and long-haul routes.
Some analysts have said that Airbus should push back the A350 program indefinitely to ensure it can at least squeeze a better performance out of its A330, a currently-in-service 295-seater that was built to compete with Boeing's 767.
The two Republican senators from Alabama, where EADS was planning to establish an assembly line to build the KC-45 and a freighter version of the A330, were quick to condemn what they regard as a political stitch-up that put jobs in traditionally Democratic Washington state (Boeing's home) before employment in their region.
"The company, which was hip-deep in sorting out A380 development, simply hadn't foreseen the huge pent-up demand for a more efficient 250-seat airliner, and tried to take the easy way out by offering a re-engined version of its A330, " aviation journalist David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor of Flightglobal.com, told CNN in an earlier report.
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