UPS Buys Airbus A380s After Cutting A300 Orders

Airbus yesterday won its second U.S. A380 customer after UPS signed a deal to buy 10 freighters, giving the airframer another order for the jumbo jet less than a week before the plane's formal roll-out in Toulouse. UPS follows rival FedEx, which inked an A380 order in 2002, also for 10 freighters...

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