Airbus 1553 adjustments
Airbus announced new orders at the time of the second day of the 48E aero-nautical parlor of the mil 1553 protocol, which drove John Leahy, commercial director of the European avionics, to confirm the objective of 300 orders brutes for the body of the year.
The affiliate to 100% of EADS thus mentioned 31 orders close – of which 10 for big carriers – additional this Tuesdays, that come to add to the 24 places the day before with Qatar Airways.
Before the beginning of the parlor of the Bourget, a demonstration that uniformly was in the past the theater of a lays off orders, Airbus could prevail itself of 32 orders brutes stored since the beginning of the year. The number of net orders (after deduction of the cancellations) was of 11. Of his side, Boeing, that did not again announce any new order since the parlor beginning, claims a total of 73 orders brutes for seven mil-std-1553 orders.
The world-wide economical crisis, to which added the worries linked to the risks of propagation of the virus of the flu H1N1, provoked a fall of the request for the aerial transportation, that has at his turn drives the companies to cancel or to differ their orders again airplanes.
In 2008, Boeing and Airbus had stored a total of 1,439 orders.
The two builders nevertheless showed themselves cautiously optimists on the perspectives of a return to the growth of the sector, to the picture of Randy Tinseth, commercial director of the division aviation civil, that said to Reuters Television that the aerial traffic should resume from the mi-2010.
Of his side, John Leahy took the against foot of other leaders of Airbus and of EADS, that had showed themselves more reserved on the objective of 300 orders brutes set up for this year.
“Of course, the figure less student, but I maintenance this objective of 300 (order brutes)”, it declared to Reuters to the Bourget.
At the beginning of afternoon, Airbus announced an order of Vietnam Airlines concerning 16 A321 and two A350, an order representing a total of 1.9 billion dollars on the basis of the prices catalog. The European avionics nevertheless specified that it was a matter of an order closes for the A321 but only of a protocol agreed for the A350.
Airbus next said that the company AirAsia had passed orders of 10 A350-900 and take an option on five others. On the basis of the prices catalog, purely indicative, these 10 A350 represent 2.4 billion dollars.
What’s more of these two orders presented to the Bourget, Airbus announced that the Philippine airline company Cebu Pacific had announced an order closes of five Airbus A320 additional and that an “Asian private customer” had ordered a A320 Prestige, a model of the range of airplanes of matters of the group.
Thales Space anticipates stable results in 2009
The manufacturer of satellites Thales Alenia Space, held by Thales and Finmeccanica, foresees results 2009 unchanged ones in comparison with those of the last year, said to Reuters a leader of the group. The business, of which Thales holds 67% of the parts and Finmeccanica 33%, noted that the activity linked to the States remained strong, declared Luigi Pasquali, general director of Thales Alenia Space Italia, to the occasion of the 48E aeronautical parlor of the Bourget.
It nevertheless added that the commercial market, that represents about 43% of the income of the group, was affected by the world-wide economical recession. The received orders remain nevertheless in accordance with the anticipations of the group, added Luigi Pascali. Hervé Morin assures that A400M will not be abandoned.