Paris Air Show thread

Rolls Ready to Share Engine Work in Push to Narrow R&D Gap

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Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc wants to hand more work on its aircraft engines to partners to help increase output and free up research resources for new products it will introduce in the course of the next decade.

The portion of its Trent engines that Rolls-Royce will purchase from suppliers will increase to 80 percent from 70 percent, Tony Wood, head of the Rolls-Royce’s aerospace division, said in an interview at the Paris Air Show. Engine production will more than double over the next three to four years from 300 last year, led by output in Singapore, he said.

Rolls-Royce is responding to a push by planemakers Airbus Group SE and Boeing Co. to hasten aircraft deliveries as they work through backlogs that extend beyond 2021. The greater reliance on suppliers comes as the U.K. company pursues technology both to maintain its leading status in selling engines for wide-body jets and position itself in the narrow-body jet space from which it is currently absent.

“That’s a very deliberate move,” Wood said. “We’ve built the capability in our supply chain so that we can focus on the the really tough parts of the engine where there’s the highest technology.”

The move adds pressure to Rolls’s supply chain as Airbus and Boeing increase output to meet increased demand. The U.K. company has 1,500 orders for its Trent XWB, the only engine available on Airbus’s A350 wide-body model. It’s one of two engine choices on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the A380 jumbo.

Supply Strains

“It’s one thing to manage your own factories, it’s another thing when you’re buying 80 percent of the engine to make sure that our supply chain is ready,” Wood said.

Rolls, whose Chief Executive Officer John Rishton is at the Paris show to introduce customers to his successor, Warren East, has gained market share on dual-aisle aircraft at the expense of a position supplying engines to short-haul carriers. The London-based company effectively exited the market after selling its 32.5 percent stake in a venture with United Technology Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney for $1.5 billion in 2011.

The powerplant-maker is now pushing into new technologies, investing 1.2 billion pounds and filing 600 patents in the last year, the most of any U.K. company, as it positions itself for a new aircraft platform, Wood said. Leaner combustion systems, ceramic matrix composites and carbon-titanium fan blades are among the technology Rolls is pursuing, he said.

Aircraft-makers and airlines will have two options from the company for new planes, including the Rolls-Royce Advance engine in 2020, and its Ultrafan model in 2025.

“There’s a mixture of market pull and technology push here, and the industry is in a phase at the moment where it’s more about technology push,” Wood said.
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Big order pending, Emirates has issues with 787-10

Sir Tim Clark, chief executive of giant Gulf carrier Emirates, at the 2015 Paris Air Show. He has just one problem with the 787-10.
Boeing's largest Dreamliner, the 787-10, is pitted against the Airbus A350-900 in competition for a big order from Emirates. The airline's chief executive says the Dreamliner engines are under-powered for his needs — though he's keeping the door open for Boeing.

By Dominic Gates
Seattle Times aerospace reporter
Paris — Boeing is hoping to win a big order for its largest Dreamliner, the 787-10, as soon as November from giant Gulf carrier Emirates. But there’s a problem.

British-born Emirates chief executive Tim Clark, speaking to a small gathering of journalists at the Paris Air Show, said the 787-10 is a “spectacular aeroplane” but that “yes, there are issues.”

Clark is evaluating the 323-seat Dreamliner that’s due to debut in 2018 against the already-in-service, 315-seat Airbus A350-900 for Emirates’ medium long-haul flights of 8 to 10 hours. He’s looking for about 50 jets over time, which would be worth nearly $15 billion to Boeing at list prices and probably around half that after discounts.


Winning that would be a huge boost for Boeing. The 787-10, which will be built exclusively in North Charleston, S.C., was successfully launched at the previous Paris Air Show in 2013. But since then, the jet has won only one small order for three more units bringing the total order book to 140 jets.


Clark said the problem for Emirates is that the Dreamliner engines lack the ideal thrust range the carrier is looking for.

He said that when temperatures at the Dubai airport soar past 110 degrees, as they have in the past week, it creates adverse operating conditions that demand higher power.

“That makes life difficult” for the 787-10, whose engines generate about 76,000 pounds of thrust. Clark said his team estimates that up to 84,000 pounds would be needed to assure take-off with full loads all year round.

“On the A350-900, we don’t get those kind of operating conditions restrictions,” he added.

Clark readily concedes that few other airlines, if any, have such a requirement and that neither Boeing nor the 787-10 engine-makers are going to essentially develop a new engine just for Emirates. “They’ll probably say, Look, that’s it,” he said, calling that a “perfectly reasonable stand.”


Clark hastened to assure Boeing that the door is not closed. He is, after all, a master negotiator.

The A350-900 is a heavier airplane, he said, designed to fly nearly 1,000 miles further than the 787-10, which has a range of about 8,000 miles that’s enough to do the required missions.

And Clark said that while he’s satisfied the 787-10 will be very reliable in service, because it’s a simple stretch of the already reliable 787-9, he doesn’t yet have the same comfort with the new Airbus jet, only three of which have been delivered so far.


In Dubai, Emirates has up to 120 big airplanes moving in and out inside a couple of hours and so dispatch reliability is crucial, he said. He relies on his Boeing 777s, which dispatch on time 99.3 percent of the time.

On the other hand, those three A350s in service were delivered to his Gulf neighbor, Qatar Airlines chief executive Akbar Al Baker, who has been lauding the plane to Clark.

“Mr Akbar has been trying to get me to go look at his aeroplane,” said Clark. “He says it’s such a good aeroplane, the best one he’s had.”

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“We’ll put all that into the pot and just see what the assessment is,” Clark said.

The industry expects Emirates to announce its choice at the Dubai Air Show in November, but Clark said the order may wait until Dubai’s new airport in Dubai is more developed and the carrier has evaluated whether it will hold onto the 777s due to come off lease in the next few years.

“When the time is right to put a lot of the fleet jigsaw puzzles together, then we’ll see,” he said.

Saj Ahmad, industry analyst for Strategic Aero Research, believes Clark may be blowing smoke as part of a negotiation strategy.

Ahmad points out that Emirates’s other Gulf neighbor, Etihad of Abu Dhabi, which has an almost identical climate and elevation to the Emirates base in Dubai, is a launch customer of the 787-10 and plans to deploy the jets on routes similar those Emirates has in mind.

“This really is Boeing’s to lose,” said Ahmad.

However, Scott Hamilton, founder of industry analysis site Leeham.net, doesn’t discount what Clark says.

Hamilton spoke with Clark at the annual International Air Transport Association (IATA) conference in Miami last week and subsequently was the first to report Clark’s concerns about the 787-10 thrust issue in his newsletter.

A follow-up engineering analysis published on Leeham.net Monday confirmed that the engine thrust does fall short in the conditions Clark described.

“Does Clark negotiate in the press? Yes, he does,” said Hamilton. “He also means what he says.”

Hamilton believes the competition remains open, with both Airbus and Boeing now enticed to sweeten their offers to close the deal.

In Paris, Clark can take a close look at the Airbus contender.

Qatar brought one of its three A350-900s to the Air Show, where it is on display on the ground. And Airbus flies another in the daily aerial display. Tuesday afternoon, hot enough by Paris standards though not Dubai hot, the Airbus test pilots took it up above Le Bourget.

They didn’t attempt any of the vertical take-off, zero-g stunts the Boeing pilots are pulling with the 787-9 here. Instead, the A350 wheeled serenely around the sky, doing tight turns and impressing with its very quiet — but still powerful — engines.
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Boeing Jet That Doesn’t Exist Yet Becomes Talk of Paris Air Show

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As aviation leaders mingle in Paris for the industry’s largest expo, much of the talk centers on a Boeing Co. plane nicknamed “Mom” that doesn’t even exist yet.

The tag is an acronym used internally at Boeing for “middle of market,” a jet that would be sized to fit between current single- and twin-aisle offerings and succeed the discontinued 757.

No matter that it wouldn’t be in service until the 2020s. Just the promise of the first all-new Boeing since the 787 Dreamliner is enough to generate a Paris Air Show buzz, especially with product introductions noticeably absent this year. Lessors, engine makers, airlines and Airbus Group SE are all chiming in on the potential benefits and pitfalls.

“I would argue that certainly there’s a market there,” said David Joyce, chief executive officer of General Electric Co.’s GE Aviation, which is “working on some technologies and some capabilities” for a 757-class plane.

A new jet may seat about 220 people, according to Boeing, which began dribbling out details in the run-up to the Paris fair. That’s similar to the narrow-body 757, which went out of production a decade ago but remains cherished by some airlines for its capabilities on U.S. transcontinental trips and long-haul routes too thinly traveled to justify a bigger aircraft.

‘Very Active’

“We’re in very active discussions with Boeing on the ultimate replacement for the 757,” said Air Lease Corp. CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy, the self-described godfather of jetliner leasing. “Boeing is well aware of our requirements.”

All-new jets don’t come along that often. Before the 787 debuted in 2011, Boeing’s last built-from-scratch model was the 777 in 1995.

Airbus CEO Fabrice Bregier estimated Monday that Boeing would have to invest about $10 billion to bring the aircraft on its drawing boards to market. Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner told reporters Tuesday in Paris the Chicago-based planemaker is “still in the data-gathering stage.”

The sales potential is strong, but Boeing won’t share its market estimates, according to Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing and sales. Airbus has pegged potential demand in the middle-of-the-market category at about 1,000 jets -- and attacked Boeing on the flank left open when it dropped the 757.

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Sharklets, Tanks

Airbus added wing fins dubbed sharklets on the largest single-aisle model, the A321, to extend its range. It created the A321neo Long-Range, featuring an extra fuel tank, and updated its smallest wide-body, the A330, to boost efficiency. It’s not above crowing about the changes.

“Competition is so strong from us between the A330neo and the A321 that Boeing knows it doesn’t have anything to go up against that,” said Kiran Rao, director of strategy at Airbus. “They’re having to think about doing something new.”

Boeing has been publicly tiptoeing toward the idea of a 757 successor for years while cautioning that any new aircraft would borrow from existing models and not, as CEO Jim McNerney said last year, be a bet on “moon-shot” breakthroughs.

“Whatever happens in the future with Boeing we are going to keep a very close eye on,” Air Astana CEO Peter Foster said in an interview at the air show, where the Kazakhstan-based carrier agreed to add A321neo Long Range jets under lease.

Mom Aircraft

Boeing’s challenge: How many airlines would pay a premium for new engines and operating efficiencies over the upgraded A321s? Even when the 757 was being built, Boeing found many buyers made do with either its largest 737 jet or a small wide-body, squeezing the room to sell a Mom aircraft.

“You have to make sure if you do build an airplane like this that it’s not over-engineered and therefore overpriced,” said CEO Aengus Kelly of lessor AerCap Holdings NV. “It’s not a long-range airplane. It’s not going to be a traditional wide-body aircraft, so you can’t charge those prices. That’s not the mission anyone wants.”

Even if Boeing were ready to commit now -- which it isn’t ready to do -- development would run into the next decade, ensuring more air-show gossip and speculation.

The Dreamliner’s three-years-late first delivery followed Boeing’s go-ahead in 2003 to start offering the 787 for sale. Just crafting an engine for the new Boeing probably would take five years, said Safran SA CEO Philippe Petitcolin, whose company is a partner with GE in engine-maker CFM International.

“I don’t think we are that close to a decision, not in the next 18 months to two years,” Petitcolin said. “We are in the early, early stages.”
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Airbus to convert A320/A321 jets to freighters with ST Aerospace

PARIS Airbus (AIR.PA) announced an agreement with Singapore-based ST Aerospace to convert aircraft from its best selling A320 family of single-aisle jets to freighters to boost the life of the planes.

"This really helps us in terms of selling new aircraft and managing residual values," Airbus Chief Operating Officer Tom Williams said at the Paris air show on Wednesday.

Airbus forecast demand for more than 600 aircraft over next 20 years to be converted in the small freighter range. The first converted A321 will be delivered in 2018.
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Bombardier exec says could build larger CSeries aircraft

PARIS (Reuters) - Bombardier BBDb.TO could produce a third, larger version of its CSeries aircraft in the future, an executive at the Canadian train and planemaker said on Wednesday, potentially giving the high-stakes project a lucrative boost.

Critical to the future of Bombardier's planemaking unit, the CSeries made its air show debut in Paris this week.

Bombardier expects the smaller CS100 model to be certified by the end of 2015 after years of delays and cost overruns. The CS300 is due to follow next year, and a potential CS500 model is now also on the cards.

"It's a possibility, yes," Rob Dewar, vice president of the CSeries, told Reuters when asked about a CS500. "The platform has the capability to be a larger aircraft."

Bombardier was focused on ensuring the current models enter service for now, starting next year, however.

The 110-to-160 seat CSeries is Bombardier's first direct competitor to the top-selling 737 and A320 single-aisle jets built by Boeing BA.N and Airbus AIR.PA. A larger version would open up a wider market to Bombardier.

The company is under pressure to drum up new sales for the CSeries. So far it has 243 firm orders, with two-thirds for the CS300, still short of its target of 300 orders by the time the aircraft enters service.

The CSeries' wings performed better in tests than expected, Dewar said, implying a larger CSeries model could be developed without major new expense as a complete wing redesign would not be required.

"That wing, if we ever did the 500, of course would be used and modified to do that," he said.

Customers have already shown an interest in a larger CS500 version, Dewar said.

"We get demand for a larger aircraft, but we give them exactly the same response, we're focused on the CS100 and 300," he said.
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Boeing warns Airbus over reports of state aid

Boeing has warned arch rival Airbus over unconfirmed reports that it wants state aid for a new version of its A380 super-jumbo jet.
Ray Conner, head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said subsidies or loans for a new airliner would breach World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.
Airbus said it would not comment as it had not yet decided on a revamped A380.

The two aerospace giants were locked in years of litigation over accusations that each received state funding.
But recent sales of the world's largest passenger aircraft have been disappointing, while Reuters and the UK's Sunday Times newspaper have reported that Airbus has sounded out European governments about loans for an upgrade.
The so-called A380neo could have new engines and more seats. The current A380, built at a cost of at least €15bn (£11.4bn), is certified to carry 853 passengers, but typically carries about 550.

A decade after its launch, the A380 has almost 320 firm orders and there was speculation earlier this year that the whole programme could be scrapped.
Boeing tax breaks

Mr Conner said at the Paris Air Show that an application for state loans risked reopening the dispute with Airbus.
"Whether they go forward with that, we will address as it comes along. That would clearly not be in line with what the WTO has said," Mr Conner said.
Both companies have claimed partial victories in their long-running dispute, but are now fighting over whether their rival is complying with the WTO.
Airbus accuses Boeing of benefiting from billions of dollars in tax breaks in Washington state. Mr Conner defended the benefits, saying that the incentives were open to the whole aerospace industry.

"There are about 2,500 aerospace companies in the state of Washington that benefit. Frankly, if Airbus or Bombardier, or any of our competitors, want to come to Washington state, they would get the benefit as well," he said.
An Airbus spokesman said he would not comment as "there is no A380neo programme".
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Emirates urges Airbus to go big on stretched version of A380

Emirates urged Airbus Group to treat its A380 super-jumbo to a full-grown stretch version instead of just a minor extension, as the biggest operator of the double-decker seeks to pack more passengers into its planes.

Airbus said at the Paris Air Show that it’s considering what it called a “little stretch” of the plane by adding panels to the fuselage that would enlarge it enough to accommodate 40 to 60 additional seats.

“It’s a step in the right direction, but perhaps not as many as we would have liked,” Emirates president Tim Clark said in a television interview at the expo on Tuesday.

The A380 is “vital” for Emirates’ business plan, Mr Clark said, adding that the current plane is in “very good shape,” with dispatch reliability at 99 per cent. Having ordered 140 A380s and already flying 62 of them, Mr Clark said he would like to see the aircraft evolve and that offering new engines would go a long way toward increasing fuel efficiency.

Airbus sales chief John Leahy, by contrast, has said the board of the company probably won’t back an upgrade of the aircraft for just one customer and needs a broader market commitment for the A380, which has failed to win a new airline customer in more than two years.
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Boeing says Ethiopian Airlines orders more Dreamliners

Boeing (BA.N) announced at the Paris air show on Wednesday that Ethiopian Airlines was the unidentified customer behind a previously announced order for six 787-8 Dreamliners, worth $1.3 billion at list prices.

The carrier currently operates 13 787s, and the Dreamliners are "part of Ethiopian's long-term strategy to increase capacity and provide greater route flexibility to and from its hub in Addis Ababa", Boeing said.

Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Tewolde GebreMariam added that the carrier planned to "keep investing heavily in technologically advanced and modern airplanes" as part of its plans to modernise and expand its fleet.

Ethiopian Airlines is the first African operator of the 787 and currently has an all-Boeing passenger fleet, Boeing said.
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Less people carriers and more aircraft that make things go "boom!" please. (And, no I don't mean Malaysia Air.)
 
Boeing gets 747 boost as Russian firm signs up for more freighters

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PARIS Boeing (BA.N) won breathing space for its struggling jumbo jet on Wednesday with a preliminary deal for 20 of its 747-8 freighters from Russian cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Group.

The sharp increase in Volga-Dnepr's 747-8 fleet took the Paris Airshow by surprise and eased concerns over the latest version of Boeing's iconic jumbo jet, whose production is ticking over slowly due to a recent drop in sales.

The deal calls for Volga-Dnepr to provide expanded cargo services to Boeing itself, by ferrying parts to its factories.

The company's Antonov-124-100 transporters were recently used to lift shipments to Boeing plants in the Seattle area during a port strike and the mammoth cargo planes will provide permanent logistics support in future, the planemaker said.

"Volga-Dnepr provide a very good service for us in our production system and in turn they are acquiring the product from us, so it seems like a good way to have a partnership," Martin Bentrott, sales vice president for Middle East, Russia and Central Asia told Reuters.

Both Boeing and European rival Airbus (AIR.PA) have seen orders for their biggest planes dwindle as customers opt for improved twin-engined jets.

At Boeing, that has put a question mark over production of the 747, with analysts warning the company could face a $1 billion accounting charge if the program was shut down.

The U.S. group has made a concerted push for freighter orders to keep production going, industry sources say.

The 20 aircraft will be acquired through a mix of direct purchases and lease-based transactions. Volga-Dnepr currently operates six 747-8 freighters.

That would add 15 months of production to the 747-8 production line, which has enough work for 24 months at current production rates. However, Boeing said the cargo carrier would take delivery over a longer period of seven years.

Boeing did not say how many of the planes would be bought or how many leased. At list prices, the 20 jets would be worth around $7.4 billion.

Boeing has its own financing arm, Boeing Capital Corp, which is likely to be involved in the deal, industry sources said.

The largest single direct purchase so far was from Germany's Lufthansa (LHAG.DE), involving 19 passenger versions of 747-8.

Bentrott said recent political tensions between the West and Moscow had not hampered doing such deals.

"Not at all with respect to Volga. The issue between the U.S. and Europe and Russia is not having an effect on our ability to do business; it is more having an impact on the economic environment in Russia itself," he said in an interview.

"It is having an effect on our airline customers and we are having to make some adjustments in terms of delivery timing."

These include Aeroflot, but Russia's flag carrier has not canceled an order for 787 Dreamliners, Bentrott said.

On Tuesday, an Aeroflot executive was quoted saying the $4.8 billion order for 22 jets, dating back to 2007, was being scrapped but the airline's chief executive immediately denied this, telling Reuters, "we are still in discussions".
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PARIS: Bombardier works to boost appeal of CRJ, Q400

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Bombardier plans to reinvigorate its marketing efforts on the Q400 turboprop and CRJ regional jet after admitting that it has neglected the two aircraft in recent years.

In addition, it is evaluating future engine options and other changes for both types in a bid to drive performance improvements.

“I think we took our eye slightly off the ball,” says Colin Bole, senior vice-president sales and aircraft management at the Canadian airframer. “We will put more emphasis on marketing both the Q400 and CRJ in future.”
Although the backlogs for both types have improved of late – standing at 52 and 81 respectively as of 31 March – they continue to lag those of their competitors at ATR and Embraer.
On the Q400, the emphasis is on the “flexibility” of the platform, says Jean-François Tessier, director of CRJ programme strategy.

A 78-seat example is on display in Paris in the colours of Abu Dhabi’s Falcon Aviation Services – although understood to be eventually destined for a Senegalese carrier – but an 86-seat, high-density variant is also available.
So far, only Thailand’s Nok Air has acquired the higher capacity model, which uses a seat pitch of 29in (74cm), plus reconfiguration of the forward baggage compartment, to achieve the increase.
However, there is potential to add another seat row if pitch is further reduced to 28in, says Ross Mitchell, vice-president, business acquisition, taking capacity to 90 seats.
While the massively reduced pitch is likely to be restricted to the Southeast Asian market, Bombardier says it could also perform a stretch of the Q400 which would be “technically very easy” through the addition of a fuselage plug, says Tessier. The additional weight would be within the scope of the type’s Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150 5,071shp engines, he adds.

“If there’s demand and an airline wants to be a launch customer, we would be happy to look at it,” says Tessier. “We have enough margin to deliver a 90-seat plane.”
It is additionally in discussions with all the major propulsion manufacturers “to evaluate the technology they can put on the market”.
Tessier stops short of committing to re-engining, noting that any fuel saving would have to be sufficient to “justify the [cost of adding] the new engine”.

It is a similar story on the CRJ family. Bombardier has committed to delivering a “double digit” cut in fuel burn by 2020, says Tessier, through both an aerodynamic clean-up of the aircraft and engine enhancements.
The former could include a reshaped wing on the CRJ1000 and a longer, reshaped wing on the CRJ900, which would grow to match the 85ft 11in wingspan on its larger sibling, alongside the possible addition of landing gear doors.

GE has already delivered a 1% fuel burn improvement on its CF34 engines through the introduction of a reshaped conic nozzle and further incremental performance gains may mean that completely new powerplants are not required, says Tessier.
“Re-engining is a quite weight-heavy way of improving fuel efficiency,” he says.
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Wizz Air commits to buy Airbus planes worth $13.7 billion

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PARIS Hungary's Wizz Air (WIZZ.L) committed to buy 110 Airbus (AIR.PA) A321neo aircraft at the Paris air show on Thursday worth $13.7 billion at list prices as the Eastern European-focused budget airline continues to expand its network and capacity.

The memorandum of understanding, reached early on Thursday after all-night negotiations in Paris, calls for 110 firm deliveries and purchase rights for a further 90 aircraft.

Reuters reported earlier, citing people familiar with the matter, that Airbus was close to a deal to sell around 100 A320neo-family jets to Wizz Air following a fierce battle over price with rival Boeing (BA.N) to retain its status as exclusive supplier to the carrier.

"With this order, we are paving the way for the next decade to ensure the growth of this business," Wizz Air Chief Executive Jozsef Varadi told a news conference.

The jetliners will be delivered between 2019 and 2024, Airbus said, adding that this marked the biggest single order for the A321neo model.

Wizz Air currently operates 61 aircraft on over 380 routes from 22 bases focused on Central and Eastern Europe.

Airbus said it won $57 billion worth of business for a total of 421 aircraft overall at the air show this week. The deals include firm orders for 124 aircraft worth $16.3 billion and commitments for 297 aircraft worth $40.7 billion.

Airbus Chief Executive Fabrice Bregier told a news conference to wrap up the air show that the Wizz Air order confirmed that the market trend was extremely positive.
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AIRSHOW-Boeing wins $50.2 bln of business at Paris Airshow

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PARIS, June 18 U.S. planemaker Boeing Co said on Thursday it won orders and commitments for 331 aircraft worth $50.2 billion at this week's Paris Airshow, compared with the 421 aircraft tally worth $57 billion notched up by European rival Airbus.

Of the $50.2 billion of business signed by Boeing, 145 aircraft worth $18.6 billion were firm orders, with the balance either commitments or orders already in the order book from airlines which had not been identified.

Airbus said it signed firm orders for 124 aircraft worth $16.3 billion and commitments for 297 aircraft worth $40.7 billion at the show.

Airbus saw off competition from Boeing to win a last-minute 110-plane order from European low-cost carrier Wizz Air , grabbing the limelight in the final hours of its home show.
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