Qatar Airways CEO Badr Mohammed Al-Meer has described the decision to select Boeing over Airbus as “a very, very, very, close call.”

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Qatar Airways has ordered up to 210 Boeing aircraft, in a deal announced by the White House as part of President Trump’s Middle East tour.

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Both Boeing and rival Airbus, which has also sold extensively to Qatar Airways, have struggled in recent years with supply chain problems as they have taken thousands of plane orders amid strong ...