Riyadh Air CEO points to progress with narrow-body jets order

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Saudi Arabia's new airline Riyadh Air has moved to the final stages of agreeing a sizeable order of narrow-body aircraft, with a deal likely to be announced in the coming months, CEO Tony Douglas said on Thursday, without elaborating. Douglas first said the company was in talks with Airbus and Boeing to buy a significant number of narrow-body jets in June. The new airline will take its first deliveries of wide-body jets from Boeing and start operations two years from now in the capital Riyadh.