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 LE BOURGET, France (AP) - Airbus stole the spotlight from U.S. rival Boeing Co. on the opening day of the world's largest air show Monday, announcing deals worth around $43 billion.
Boeing, in contrast, tallied up orders worth $4.4 billion. Some, but not all, of the Airbus orders were new — Qatar Airlines confirmed a purchase of 80 of Airbus' problem-plagued A350 jets, worth more than $18 billion.
However, despite its early lead in the traditional trans-Atlantic rivalry at the weeklong Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, Airbus still has a long way to go to match Boeing's superselling Dreamliner 787.
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