SHANGHAI: Budget carrier Spring Airlines plans to buy 60 Airbus aircraft for $6.3 billion at list prices, it said Thursday, as a Chinese boom in air travel defies slowing economic growth.

China, the world’s second-largest economy, is already Asia’s biggest aircraft buyer as a growing middle class takes to the skies in ever-increasing numbers.

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