Airbus announces orders for 106 aircraft and Boeing for 148 on the first day of the Farnborough show.
He Farnborough Hall (United Kingdom) This year has started strong in one of the aspects that usually define the success of a salon: The aircraft sales advertisements.
The Airbus helicopter divisionhas added two H135s for the UK Police (the famous Scotland Yard), and 8 H145 for the Saudi The Helicopter Company.
As far as commercial aircraft are concerned, Riyadh Air has signed the purchase of 6 Airbus A350-1000options he had signed from a previous 2025 purchase. He has also signed with Boeing 8 B-787-9 and 20 B-787-10 (the first of this type that you order). As in the case of Airbus, they are options that it had since it became firm orders.
He most important order of the day has been the one of the leasing company SMBC Aviation Capital (Japan), with 100 aircraft to Airbus (65 A321neo and 35 A320neo)and as many to Boeing (40 B-737-8 and 60 B-737-10), a important boost to the B-737 MAXjust after the FAA announced that it was no longer supervising each and every delivery of this model and the B-787once Boeing had shown them that it once again had the technical capacity for quality control, and the quality itself, to be able to carry out these inspections. pre-delivery on behalf of the FAA.
Finally, Boeing has also signed a letter of intent with Philippine Airlines (Philippines) by 15 B-787-10 in firm and 5 options. It is about the first B-787s for Philippine Airlines.
The orders have been valued at 48.8 billion dollars, of which 14.4 billion (£36.2 billion), will have a direct impact on the British economyincluding the engines for some of these aircraft.
