Airbus had a great month. Its best this year. Orders The long-awaited A220 order from AirAsia came through. It cost Airbus that airline’s A330neo orders, though. Given AirAsia’s fickle order history, here’s hoping Airbus priced the deal accordingly. China accounted…
In March, AirInsight identified the CAAC as the mechanism behind Airbus’s China delivery freeze. This week, Reuters and Bloomberg confirmed it. Here’s what it means. What Actually Happened in China The “administrative hitch” that Guillaume Faury referenced in 1Q earnings…
Today, United Airlines took delivery of the first of 50 A321XLRs on order. Here’s a program update to provide some context. The chart illustrates how well Airbus is industrializing the program. Delivery days have nearly halved over the past two…
UPDATE – Qantas will have to wait another 10 months before it takes delivery of the aircraft, but the A350-1000ULR for Project Sunrise has completed its maiden flight on June 2. With just 12 on order, this variant remains a niche…
Air China Cargo Co., Ltd. has executed a firm purchase agreement with Airbus for 4 additional A350F freighter aircraft. This will bring their total on order to 10 aircraft. Wang Hongyan, Vice President of Air China Cargo, stated “This additional…
For much of the post-pandemic recovery, the commercial aviation industry has operated under a simple assumption: demand is no longer the problem. Supply is. The latest moves from Airbus reinforce just how serious that imbalance has become. The European aerospace…