AviTrader MRO Magazine 2017-11

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Editorial
Keith Mwanalushi, Editor
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The battle for Dubai
T
he organisers of the just ended Dubai air
show say trade visitors to the event were up
around 20% on the 2015 event, with some
79380 people entering the event during its
five-day run. At the end of the show’s final day, the
order book stood at almost US$113.8 billion.
Despite a colourful appearance by the regional and
mid-sized airplane makers, the main battle was [as
usual] between Airbus Vs Boeing. Among the highlights,
Airbus revealed its largest single announcement
ever – a US$49.5 billion deal with Indigo Partners
to purchase 430 aircraft in its A320neo family.
With the Airbus order, Indigo Partners, a US-based
private equity fund, has doubled its existing order
of 427 A320 family aircraft. The fund owns four
ultra low-cost airlines, Wizz Air, Frontier Airlines,
JetSMART and Volaris. In addition to other orders,
Airbus reports to have generated orders worth a
combined total of $58.3 billion at list prices.
Boeing won large commitments across its twinand
single-aisle commercial airplane families. The
company said it recorded commitments for 296 airplanes
- including 50 options - with a value of about
$50 billion at list prices.
So who won the battle? It certainly looks like Airbus
had the slight edge in terms of monetised orders but
its worth remembering that list prices are not usually
what the airlines actually pay -they always negotiate
for discounts and these are usually to commercially
sensitive to make public.
Both manufacturers have strong demand for
their single-aisle programmes the A320Neo and
737Max. The 787 and 777 are doing exceptionally
well as is the A330 to a lessor extent. However, both
OEMs are struggling to attract orders for the the
747-8 and A380 respectively.
Dubai has been a success for both companies, but
at the larger end of the aircraft scale, the jury is still
out.
Keith Mwanalushi
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EK placed orders for 40 787s at the show.
Photo: Emirates
Contents
MRO and Production News ............................................ 4
Finance News .................................................... 14
Other News ...................................................... 18
Cover story: Dubai makes it fly! ........................................ 20
Company profile: Engine Lease Finance. ................................. 24
Machining productivity .............................................. 25
Information Technology. ............................................. 27
People on the Move ................................................ 27
AviTrader MRO - November 2017