A Qantas order for 99 Airbus and Boeing narrow-body airliners signals that the Australian carrier's expansion will rely heavily on profitable budget unit Jetstar and its Asian franchisees. The scale looks huge, since the venerable 87-year-old airline is ordering aircraft as if it has the growth plans of a baby-faced startup. "They now have more planes on order than they are flying," JP Morgan analyst Matt Crowe says.
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