Airbus racks up $5.3bn of orders at Dubai airshow
AIRBUS forecast a “difficult winter”,despite yesterday announcing a $670m (£400m) jet deal with Senegal Airlines, taking total orders unveiled at this week’s Dubai airshow to $5.3bn.
Airbus’ chief operating officer for customers, John Leahy, said: “We had a good airshow, better than many expected. But our industry is not out of the woods yet. There will be a difficult winter ahead of us, but with the deals we made in Dubai and the interest in our products we saw here, spring may not be that far away.”
Senegal Airlines is buying four Airbus A320 aircraft and two A330s to help it launch services in early 2010 from its Dakar hub to African and European destinations.
In Dubai, Airbus announced firm and potential orders for 33 aircraft from airlines including Air Austral, Ethiopian Airlines, Comlux, Yemenia Airlines and Nepal Airlines.