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The battle of aircraft manufactorers at its peak

The stakes are very high. In Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Australia, the manufacturers are “slaughtering each other to win” the small and large airlines or the Mega Carriers.

This August, always according to the data publicized by the two mega civil aircraft manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, has been an extremely lucrative month. Both in terms of orders and deliveries of different types of aircraft. The European industry has literally flooded with orders for its constantly most popular type of aircraft, the A320.

Of course we are speaking about the entire range of this type of aircraft, including the A320 neo and its various versions.

So, there were 662 orders, with corresponding delivery of 315 aircraft. As for the A330 series, there were 83 orders and 61 deliveries. The new creation, A350, follows, in 3 versions and engines, which we have admired up close this year in Bourget, Paris, with nine (9) orders and four (4) deliveries.

There is also the mega- aircraft A 380, with 17 deliveries, but without any orders during August.

Of course, the fact that there were no orders or deliveries for the A340 shows that perhaps this type of aircraft has completed its course in the commercial stage.

For its part, Boeing has the 737 series as its “crown jewel” in both orders and deliveries, for every version, from the 500 to the 800, 900 and now the 1000, and beyond, with 321 and 324 respectively, within August.


Airbus has marked the end of the concept phase at aircraft level for its Beluga XL, the company’s new-generation oversized transport aircraft based on the A330.

There were no orders for BOE/747, but 11 were delivered. That shows that despite the improvements and the updated versions of the model, there is pressure at the manufacturer’s “palmares” from newer aircraft types.

Despite the above, Korean Air insists to the 747-8s version with a capacity of 368 passengers and enough orders for freighters of the above type.

Surprisingly though, BOE/767 received 48 orders and had 12 deliveries.

This type remains in the spotlight because with its successive versions, it has become an “object of desire” for companies and countries in Africa and South America, with a significant number of these type of aircraft to be utilized as cargo with new engines and increased range.

And of course, there is the triple-seven BOE/777 series, in many versions, at its peak, its main “suitors” being the Gulf countries, namely the Emirates, ETIHAD and Qatar and being desired by the US giants as well. Therefore it had 54 orders and 66 deliveries in August.

Naturally, BOE/777 has not yet said its final word, since a new version is about to be presented (the 777X, which will include two versions, the 777-8 and the 777-9), with folding wings for adjusting to the capacity of heavy traffic AIRPORTS and beyond.

And the hour of the new creation of BOE has come. BOE/787 with carbon fibers, with versions and engines of varying capabilities, has reached 24 orders and 90 [yes, (90) deliveries], during August 2015.

Because for the BOE / 787, which strongly competes for the title of the optimal per seat cost flying creation of the aircraft industry, its main competitor being the A 350 as it evolves gradually, its innovations are excellent. This will soon become the subject of one of our upcoming detailed articles, although we have originally talked about A 350 in one of our previous articles.

Summarizing, with our information deriving directly from AIRBUS and BOEING, the total order number for August amounted to 754 for AIRBUS, with 397 deliveries.

On the other hand, Boeing reached 447 and 503 respectively.

The stakes are very high. In Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Australia, the manufacturers are “slaughtering each other to win” the small and large airlines or the Mega Carriers.

That is a positive sign of growth for labor force employment, innovative technological engine developments, Hull materials, economy, speed, primarily safety, but also for the clear superiority of the air medium, compared to all other means of transport.

High expectations, high targets, constant search for overcoming, for the passenger, the human and his chance of a universal communication.

Emmanuel A. Gyzis is managing partner of Emmanuel A. Gyzis & Associates Law Offices.

Theodore Koumelis
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