IndiGo of India thinks there room to grow in the aviation market, with the airline placing an order for 300 Airbus A320neo family aircraft. IndiGo Airbus A321neo - Rendering, Airbus. The order is one of the largest received by Airbus from a since airline. The exact mix of the order has not been disclosed, but it will be made up of A320neo, A321neo and A321XLR … [Read more...]

Spirit Airlines and Airbus have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) earlier this week for 100 A320neo Family aircraft. This is the first step to that magic firm order which looks so good in results books. The airline will shy away from the A220 platform and instead stick to the A320neo family - with plans to order a mix of A319neo, A320neo, and A321neo … [Read more...]

Czech Airlines has been busy - and have placed an order for new aircraft with Airbus. The airline will add four new Airbus A220-300s to their fleet, and have upsized an order for three A320neo aircraft into three Airbus A321XLR frames. Czech Airlines Airbus A321XLR - Image, Airbus Czech Airlines Airbus A220-300 - Image, Airbus They will join Czech Airlines … [Read more...]

Air Austral of Reunion has become the latest carrier to order the Airbus A220.  Air Austral Airbus A220-300 - Rendering, Airbus.  The airline has placed orders for the larger variant of the A220 - the A220-300. The firm order will cover three of the type to join the airline. They will seat 132 passengers each - slightly less than the maximum capacity of a … [Read more...]

Airbus has picked up the pace with the A320neo family - with the airline delivering it's 1000th Airbus A320neo family to IndiGo. The 1000th A320neo Family Aircraft - an Airbus A321neo. Pictured with Anand Stanley, Head of Airbus India and South Asia, Airbus / Michael Menking, Head of A320 Family Programme, Airbus / Rono Dutta, Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo / Chadi Saade, … [Read more...]

Air Transat marked its first first deployment of the Airbus A321LR (the long range variant of the A321neo) to London Gatwick yesterday (8th October). Air Transat Airbus A321 at Gatwick Airport - Images, Air Transat. This is first airline to operate the type on a transatlantic leg between Canada and the UK, and the first visit of the type to Gatwick Airport. The … [Read more...]

Another new operator joins the Airbus A350 club – this time it’s Air France who has taken delivery of its A350-900. Air France A350-900 over the French Countryside - Image, Airbus  The aircraft is the first of 28, with the delivery expected to be completed by 2025. In terms of deployment, the fleet will be flung far and wide. According to the … [Read more...]

Air New Zealand has finalised an order with The Boeing company for an order of eight Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner Aircraft. Air New Zealand Boeing 787-10 in the evening sky - Rendering, The Boeing Company The Boeing 787-10 will join Air New Zealand's all Boeing long haul fleet - made up of the Boeing 777-200, the Boeing 777-300ER and the Boeing 787-9 (of which Air New … [Read more...]

One of the things that came out of today's Global Market Forecast at Airbus was how the company is defining its product line up And it's interesting, to say the least - with certain aircraft filling into more than one role. Here are the diagrams from the day that we are going in-depth in: From the Airbus Global Markets Presentation   From the Airbus … [Read more...]

Today, Economy Class and Beyond is in London trying to do two jobs at once... and the one we're focusing on first is the Airbus Global Markets forecast for the next twenty years. So today, Airbus predicts the need for over  39,000 new aircraft in the next 20 years. Into the Numbers This number covers both passenger and freight aircraft - which is estimated to … [Read more...]