Airbus can he lose his home Bourget? – Challenges.fr

Of course, the squabble commands to the Paris Air Show is the scum of the struggle that the two giants engaged throughout the year. Of course, the show is only in its third day, and many contracts are still falling. Of course, the accounts are traditionally arrested on Thursday evening at the end of the professional days of the show. Still on 17 June in the morning or at the halftime show, Airbus is even surpassed by the great American rival, with 203 orders against 323 the giant Chicago, according to the count of the website Flightglobal. If Airbus is slightly ahead of long-haul, with 55 against 51 orders, Boeing dominates the segment of single-aisle (272 to 148), thanks to the giant lessor AerCap order of 100 medium-haul 737 Max 8 .

Korean Air agnostic

Why the delay? After starting with a bang on the first day of the show, Airbus had a bit of a soft Tuesday, 16 June If Korean Air has ordered 50 A321 NEO him, including an optional twenties, the company has also purchased 50 737 Max 8 Boeing. You should have seen the two successive press conferences in the cabin Airbus and Boeing in that of a hundred meters, with the head of Korean Air, the famous “Chairman Cho” successively extolling the incomparable merits of two competing aircraft. Ditto the previous day with Garuda Indonesia, which signed purchase commitments for both A350 and 30 30 787.

Tuesday, June 16, except the announcement Korean Air, Airbus is merely occupy land with announcements of a relative range. Renting A321 NEO LR by the lessor ALC to the Kazakh airline Air Astana; and the choice by the low-cost Malaysian AirAsia a software solution that allows drivers to access electronically flight briefing documents.

suffers Bombardier, Embraer smiles

The day Wednesday promises to be decisive if Airbus wants to resume hand. The Boeing press conferences program does not indicate the order announcements, but Boeing has already announced the sale of 20 747-8 freighter in the Russian Volga Dnepr and the 6 787-8 to Ethiopian jets Airlines. We know that Airbus is fond of grand finale of orders at the end of shows. It’s now or never.

At the halftime of the Paris Air Show, the sum of orders is less than the 2014 Farnborough Air Show in the same period, with 792 orders and 910 purchase commitments against.