Time for your nightly round up at the Paris Air Show
United Airlines will be ordering 35 Airbus A350-1000’s. This will be made up of 10 new orders, and 25 conversions of Airbus A350-900 orders
Image – Airbus
Delivery of these aircraft is due to commence in 2018, with plans to operate the aircraft on United Airlines long haul network.
Singapore Airlines has increased its orders for Airbus A350, with commitments for an additional 30 A350-900’s and 20 options that can be taken as a -900 or a -1000 model, firming up an order it has after announcing a commitment to purchase earlier. This increases Singapore Airlines A350 orders to 70 firm and 20 options.
Hong Kong Aviation Capital has signed with Airbus for narrow body jets, with a Memorandum of Understanding for 40 Airbus A320neo and 20 Airbus A321neo (new engine option) aircraft.
Spirit Airlines have also been buying narrowbody Airbus aircraft, with a firm order of 20 Airbus A321’s – as well as converting 10 options it has into orders for another 10 A321’s (orignally A320’s) – a total of 30 aircraft. These will be A321ceo’s (current engine option) featuring Sharlets on as the wingtip devices.
Over at Boeing, a few extra orders to top off the order book.
Travel Service of the Czech Republic will be introducing the 737-MAX 8 into Central and Eastern Europe with the commitment to purchase 3 aircraft.
Oman Air has confirmed an order with Boeing for five Boeing 737-900ER aircraft to add to its existing fleet. This will mean Oman Air will be the first operator of the 737-900ER in the Middle East.
Meanwhile in the Turboprop world, ATR has been gathering a few orders.
First up is Air Lease International who will be ordering five ATR 72-600 aircraft, and LAIT will be adding another three ATR 42-600 to their fleets.
And with that, the business side of the Paris Air Show comes to an end, and the the joy of aircraft watching and spotting begins…
And if you’re at Le Borget tomorrow… keep an eye in the sky. A certain very new aircraft will be making its Paris Air Show début…
Hopefully the rollout of the new A350’s won’t be as problematic for the airlines as the Dreamliner has been.