Airbus wins record order for 234 planes from Indonesia's Lion

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The European-owned planemaker Airbus has won a record order for 234 planes worth 18.4bn euros (£15.7bn, $24bn) from Indonesia's Lion Air.

The order trumps last year's record order for 230 Boeing planes - also from Lion Air.

The planes will be made in France and will secure 5,000 jobs there, where the unemployment rate is high at about 10%.

Lion, now a major airline in Indonesia, started up just 13 years ago.
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