Record orders for Airbus. The success of the A320neo

The British show is a success for Airbus. The European aircraft manufacturer has managed to catch some of the delay it experiences since the beginning of the year against its U.S. rival Boeing.

Airbus had the best Farnborough's history with orders and commitments purchases valued at more than $ 75 billion (€ 55 billion) aircraft, thanks to the success of its re-engined aircraft Neo, allowing it to fill part of the gap with Boeing. The U.S. for its part, announced yesterday that it signed with airlines and lessors contracts and commitments for 201 aircraft worth $ 40.2 billion at list prices. In detail, Airbus signed orders for 358 aircraft worth $ 38.4 billion and purchases of 138 other equipment worth 36.9 billion intentions.

The success of the A320neo

Farnborough, which opens its doors to the public today through Sunday, will have enabled Airbus to fill in four days a large part of the gap created between January and June by his great rival, which remains, however, since the head beginning of the year. Before the show opens Monday, Airbus was indeed dominated by Boeing 290 with net outflows in the first half against 499 for his great rival orders. The gap is now reduced to 648 against Airbus 783 net orders since the beginning of the year announced by Boeing.

Airbus commercial director John Leahy yesterday welcomed the success of the medium-haul family remotorisée A320neo (New Engine Option) with firm orders have surpassed the 3,000 copies this week. The A320neo, launched in December 2010, will enter service in October 2015. The Airbus claims a 60% market share, he shares with his family and Boeing 737 MAX. For its part, Bregier, CEO of Airbus, said the successful launch of the A330neo,airbus a330  remotorisée version featuring long-haul unveiled Monday. In total, with the Memorandum of Understanding signed at the last minute of the show by the Russian airline Transaero Airlines, are 121 shopping intentions that were recorded for the A330neo.
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"The winner of the show is clearly Airbus," summarized Myles Walton, an analyst at Deutsche Bank. He stressed that "all firm orders was on medium-haul" and the growing weight of rental companies in the portfolio of clients aircraft manufacturers.

Among the challengers, the Canadian Bombardier has also been a good show with contracts to surpass the 500 orders and purchase commitments for its medium-haul CSeries is due to enter service in late 2015. Finally, the Brazilian Embraer has earned for 8.32 billion worth of orders and purchase intentions primarily for its new family of re-engined jets E2.

Will there be an A380neo?

Asked about the possibility of launching a remotorisée version of the Airbus A380neo, Airbus CEO Bregier said that "there was no short-term project to re-engine the A380." The CEO of Emirates, the largest customer of the super jumbo, recently underlined its support to this four-engine repowering and wanted a solution for 2020. "We have a lot of work underway to improve the inside the cabin A380, "replied Bregier excluding such date.