> So we can assume the real price for the contract is lower Very much so. Common discounts for airframes can be 40-50%. Given the circumstances I'd assume Emir

> So we can assume the real price for the contract is lower Very much so. Common discounts for airframes can be 40-50%. Given the circumstances I'd assume Emirates got somewhere near 50; who knows. But both parties needed this deal and as other comments correctly point out the unusually public manoeuvring has been going on for months. Of course, no-one in the media has any idea about this very closely guarded commercial information and so they simply go by the list price.