Airbus logs 250 deliveries over first half of 2010

[flee 5]

Airbus delivered 250 aircraft over the first half of 2010, while the recent landmark Emirates deal for A380s took its six-month gross order total to 131.

 

Emirates' order for 32 A380s accounted for most of Airbus' new orders in June.

 

Airbus also secured private custom for two A340-500s, while Turkish Airlines picked up a single A330-200.

 

But the airframer also recorded six A330-300 cancellations, two attributed to Finnair which swapped them for five A321s, and four listed against unidentified customers.

 

Ten A319s for an undisclosed recipient completed the order tally for June.

 

The manufacturer accumulated gross orders for 131 aircraft by 30 June, while the cancellations for the six A330s and eight A320-family jets brought the net figure to 117.

 

Airbus is slightly behind its 2009 delivery rate at the halfway point. The airframer delivered 254 aircraft in the first six months of last year.

 

Source: http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/07/02/344009/airbus-logs-250-deliveries-over-first-half-of-2010.html

[Pieter C. 5]

Wow, pretty impressive !!!

 

250 in 6 months = > 40 a month or > 1 per day !!!

[Mohd Suhaimi Fariz 2]

Out of those 250 deliveries, not one of them is an A380 for MH....

[Pieter C. 5]

No, Suhaimi, but plenty for the Air Asia group !!!

 

Airbus Won 117 Net Planes Orders In H1

 

July 2, 2010

 

Airbus sold 131 aircraft in the first half of the year for a net total of 117 planes after adjusting for cancellations.

 

The European planemaker also said on Friday it had delivered 250 aircraft in the first six months of the year, including 7 A380 superjumbos.

 

The company's latest order book shows that it received six cancellations of A330-300 wide-body jets in June, of which Finnish carrier Finnair accounted for two.

 

Airbus did not name the airline which cancelled the other other four A330s but there have been industry expectations that Bahrain-based Gulf Air would trim its order for 20 A330s by four aircraft as it expands its fleet of smaller A320-family planes.

 

Airbus's latest order figures show that Dubai's DAE Capital, which says it is renegotiating aircraft orders with both Airbus and Boeing, has so far left its order for 100 Airbus planes intact.

 

(Reuters)