Industry Addendum
Airbus secures China leasing order in April
May 1st 2017
Asia dominated Airbus’ new business for April for its A320 family aircraft from four customers: They are China Aircraft Leasing Company (5) and AirAsia (3). Read More » The other buyers are Nile Air (2) and an undisclosed customer with four A319neo. Airbus booked 25 orders for the month from its A320, A330 and A350 XWB portfolios and made 46 deliveries. Orders for the A350XWB increased after an unclosed customer’s acquisition of 10 A350-900s.
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Deliveries in April were: 36 A320 family airplanes, six A330s and four A350-90s. Asiana Airlines accepted its initial A350-900 and in doing so became the 12th airline to introduce the new airline type into its fleet. Airbus’ order backlog is 6,715 aircraft, which represented approximately eight years of production, the manufacturer said.
