Air France is relaunching its mega-aircraft order.

The airline plans to resume its negotiations with Airbus and Boeing 100-150 aircraft ordered, according to La Tribune. The new aircraft would be used to replace old ones, but also to increase the fleet.

Despite the publication of poor financial results for its fiscal year 2009-2010Air France-KLM to think back his plan for a mega-aircraft order, reveals Tribune published on Wednesday. The airline plans to "relaunch negotiations with Airbus and Boeing in the fall. An order could be passed in 2011 at the earliest, "said a source on a daily basis.
The project, which involved the origin between 50 and 100 aircraft, had been abandoned in 2008 because of delays at Airbus and Boeing, as executives of Air France.
Air France is now looking to order between 100 and 150 long-haul, valued at between twenty and 38 billion dollars. According to La Tribune, the new aircraft would not only replace existing aircraft since the 1990s but also to expand the fleet of Air France-KLM in a development objective of the traffic.
The aircraft selected by the company, the B787-900 and A350-900, should not be delivered until 2013.