Airbus dominates at 2023 Paris Air Show

IndiGo places huge 500 aircraft order with Airbus
26/06/2023 Aviation engineering news, News 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

After 5 days of deals, European aerospace giant Airbus has dominated the order books over US rivals Boeing, by some margin.

It was also going to be a tough ask for Boeing to keep up with Airbus given the record breaking IndiGo deal announced on day one but it wasnt all bad news for them.

Embraer E190-E2 "Profit Hunter" (Image: Nick Harding / Max Thrust Digital)
Embraer E190-E2 “Profit Hunter” (Image: Max Thrust Digital)
Boeing 737-10 in flight (Image: Nick Harding / Max Thrust Digital)
Boeing 737-10 in flight (Image: Max Thrust Digital)

Airbus dominance is particularly good news for the UK with the wings for all Airbus A3XX aircraft being manafactured in North Wales.

Derby based Rolls-Royce also provides engines for most of rhe modern Airbus fleet.

The single aisle airliner market was most dominant with A320 and 737 families making up the bulk of the orders.

All the major manufacturers won orders at the show which saw thousands of aircraft ordered.

Paris Air Show 2023 Firm Orders

Focus now turns to Farnborough Air Show 2024 to see if records can be broken once again.

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