Airbus January 2020 O&D

Here is our updated model. 

• Airbus started the year with a bang – several big deals confirmed ensuring healthy order-level early in the year. Note the A321neo continues to accelerate past the A320neo.  Upsizing is back in vogue. The Spirit A319neo order is a surprise – there was considerable opinion the A220 had that in the bag. It could be that delivery slots for the A220 are too tight for the airline. Lessors accounted for several orders after a quiet 2019.
• Only 31 deliveries, which is slow.  To beat last year’s deliveries, they need to be more than double this number. The China FAL shutdown isn’t going to help this at all.  The Alabama FAL expansion need is therefore ever more urgent.  Also, the Toulouse A321 FAL is now becoming very important.  Notice the A320ceo family deliveries are starting to end (see page 9).
• For the MoM, the A321 continues to sweep the market.  A situation that isn’t good for Airbus or Boeing.

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