Airbus outsell Boeing at Paris Air Show

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Airbus Group SE booked $57 billion worth of deals at this year’s Paris Air Show as it struck commitments for 421 planes, outpacing Boeing Co. ’s intake of 331 jets worth $50.2 billion, according to order tallies from the world’s leading makers of jet planes.


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ohigg84

A very interesting airshow with some interesting orders., Korean Air commits for 50 A321NEO's, (30 firm plus 20 options) (also orders 30 B737 MAX 8's)., Wizz Air ordered 110 A321NEO's today.
Garuda ordered 30 A350's plus ordered 30 787-9's.

Wonder will Aer Lingus order some A320/A321NEO's?

Tenger

ohigg84 wrote: »

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Wonder will Aer Lingus order some A320/A321NEO's?

They would need to hurry up so they aren't at the back of the line. The IAG issue has probably stalled any fleet decision. However the launch customer is currently a leasing company.....EI could have a chance at getting some in 2020, thats when the B757 lease is up......

arubex

Well it is all window-dressing really, the orders were agreed weeks and months ago but kept confidential and bunched-up for the Salon.

It's not like airline executives were so wowed by the flying displays that they ran down to the chalet to buy 110 of them!

The Dubai show in November will likely see Boeing announce more orders since that's a key area for them at present. The $7 billion gap shouldn't be hard to close.

smurfjed

It's not like airline executives were so wowed by the flying displays that they ran down to the chalet to buy 110 of them!

You mean to say that airlines actually analysed the best aircraft based on size, economics, financing, crewing, maintenance, delivery dates etc etc etc and then decided?

The problem for Mr Boeing is the available delivery dates, some airlines also took slightly inferior aircraft with rapid delivery rather than get in the queue for new equipment.

Unfortunately this also impacts us in the corporate world, order a G650 today and you wont see it until 2017/18......

L1011

Everyone bar Bombardier is stuffed for delivery slots in the passenger sector. ATR are selling 2020 slots even, as a firm that often had less than a year backlog in recent memory

smurfjed

Everyone bar Bombardier

They had a big presence at the airshow with the C100 and C300..... but alas no sales.

L1011

smurfjed wrote: »

They had a big presence at the airshow with the C100 and C300..... but alas no sales.

A few Q400s for the hometown airline (well not quite hometown, but country...) seemed to be it. Tiny backlog for both them and the further CRJ assembly lines planned for massive African and Russian sales haven't happened

arubex

The delivery back logs are so grotesquely huge it's a pity McDD isn't still around as a third option.

Hopefully the Chinese will pull their act together and start to shake-up the market. Blended wing-body? Yes please.

18MonthsaSlave

arubex wrote: »

Blended wing-body? Yes please.

or even a 100 seater turboprop...or Bombardier drop the price on the Q400 to the price where it makes sense as an alternative proposition or sell the plans to "new money" from Asia or Russia.

smurfjed

This sounds interesting.....

PARIS (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp on Tuesday named a private firm, Hybrid Enterprises LLC, as the exclusive sales agent for its Hybrid Airships, a new type of aircraft that company officials say could revolutionize the way oil and mining companies haul equipment to the Arctic and other remote areas without roads.
Rob Binns, chief executive officer of Hybrid Enterprises, told Reuters in an interview that the new aircraft should be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration by late 2017, paving the way for initial deliveries in 2018.
Binns said there was strong interest in the new aircraft, which are far quieter and produce far less carbon dioxide than fixed-wing aircraft, but he declined to predict when the companies would be able to announce a launch customer.
"We're going to be able to reduce the cost of transportation to remote projects around the world and open up projects that were previously thought inaccessible," Binns said.