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Welcome back to Morning Call for 3 January 2022, and the Top Aviation News Stories for today. You can also search our archives for older news stories by date. AirInsight US Airline Index Commercial Aviation Airbus has a $260 million…

Airbus has met its target of delivering 600 aircraft in 2021. According to unaudited numbers compiled by AirInsight, the airframer has delivered 610 airliners to lessors and airlines. This compares to 566 for 2020. We don’t have a conclusive figure…

Japanese-owned but California-based lessor Aviation Capital Group (ACG) has placed a last-minute 2021 order with Airbus for forty A320neo-family aircraft. This includes five A321XLRs. It also signed a Memorandum of Understanding for twenty A220s, both ACG and Airbus announced on December 30.…
Yesterday, given this quiet time of the year, we shared some data on the state of fuel burn among US airlines' single-aisle aircraft.

UPDATE – After four years and seven months to the day of its first flight, the Russian Irkut MC-21-300 has received its type certificate on December 28. The Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsiya awarded the basic certificate after the MC-21…