Aircalin, the airline of the French territory of New Caledonia, has disclosed it is the customer for two Airbus A350 airliners that previously were listed as undisclosed on Airbus’ order sheet. The two A350s will join Aircalin’s two A330neos on its long-haul network operating from the South Pacific island to [read more]
Air India has disclosed it is the customer for 10 A350 and 90 A320 family aircraft that previously sat as undisclosed on Airbus’ order books. The order is in addition to the 250 aircraft order the TATA Group owned airline had already placed with Airbus which consisted of 40 A350s [read more]
Airbus continued its strong year of aircraft production with 62 airliners being delivered in October to 37 customers around the world. Continuing the year long trend, Single-aisle airliners such as the A320neo and A220 families dominated deliveries accounting to 56 of the 62 deliveries. The A321neo was the most popular [read more]
This week has seen a raft of orders for Airbus Helicopters including an historic contract for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The SkyAlyne partnership was first to sign this week when they placed an order for 19 Airbus H135 helicopters for RCAF military training. The partnership is a joint [read more]
European OEM Airbus has delivered the first A350-1000 to Ethiopian Airlines, the first of the type for any African operator. The Ethiopian flag carrier has four A350-1000s on order and took delivery of the first unit at a ceremony in Toulouse, France. Ethiopian Airlines plans to use the long-haul airliner [read more]
Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) have officially inaugurated the new final assembly line (FAL) for Indian built C295 military transport aircraft. The new facility in Vadodara, Gujarat forms part of the “Make In India” partnership with Airbus and will deliver 40 C295 aircraft to the Indian Air Force [read more]
Manilla-based low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific has confirmed an order for 70 Airbus A321neo airlines firming up an MoU it signed in July. The selection of the A321neo will help the airline reduce operating costs and help to reduce the airline’s carbon footprint and become more sustainable. Cebu Pacific already operates [read more]
Airbus is set to re-enter the running for a Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract to replace the Puma Helicopter fleet, including plans to build a new Helicopter engineering facility at Broughton in North Wales. Airbus previously withdrew from the process saying that the tender, worth around £1bn wasn’t attractive enough. [read more]
The Iraqi Ministry of Defence has signed a contract for 12 H225M Helicopters from leading aerospace manufacturer Airbus. The new helicopters will be used by Iraqi Army Aviation and will replace old Russian-made Mi-17 aircraft on missions such as counter-terrorism, special operations, tactical troop transport, attack, ground fire support, MEDEVAC [read more]
European aerospace giant Airbus delivered 47 aircraft to 31 customers in August maintaining its strong year to date. Single-aisle deliveries dominated again with 36 A320neo family aircraft (24 A321neo and 12 A320neo) being delivered along with five A220-300s. Customers included Wizz Air, Jet2.com and Air France. The six widebody deliveries [read more]
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