Here’s the updated model. Remember the double-headed arrow to optimize viewing. Very few orders this month. But still includes a nice one for five A359s from Lufthansa. YTD, A321neo orders are at 1.2x A320neo. A220, A320neo, and A321neo account for…
Airbus plans an aggressive production ramp-up. The European airframer has disclosed more details on how it intends to grow its production capacity until 2025 on May 27. This follows on earlier remarks by CEO Guillaume Faury that Airbus is in…
Now that the MAX is back being delivered how is the delivery competition between these two families doing? We are focusing on deliveries as that is where the rubber hits the runway, so to speak. It also gets rid of…
Airbus dusts off its plans for a new A320 final assembly line (FAL) in Toulouse. A year after the plan was mothballed due to the effects of the Covid-crisis, the former A380 Final Assembly Line in the Lagardère building will…
Here’s the updated model for Airbus orders and deliveries through April 2021. Click the double-headed arrow at the bottom right to optimize your view of the model. More signs of a recovery with the nice-sized Delta order. The fact that…
Airbus announced the passing of Bernard Ziegler, at the age of 88. Ziegler was one of the company’s engineering pioneers. Mr. Ziegler was instrumental in the introduction of the world’s first digital Fly-By-Wire (FBW) and side-stick controls in a commercial…