Adds Airbus gross sales objective
Dec 19 (Reuters) – Philippines’ Cebu Air Inc CEB.PS mentioned on Thursday it had ordered 15 Airbus SE AIR.PA A320neo household jets value $2 billion at record costs, preserving the European producer on observe to achieve a year-end gross sales milestone.
The deal consists of as much as 10 of the long-range A321XLR planes launched this yr which have confirmed in style with airways.
Airbus Chief Business Officer Christian Scherer on Wednesday famous Airbus had received 940 gross orders to this point this yr and mentioned the planemaker anticipated to achieve a milestone by the top of the yr, in a transparent signal it might cross the 1,000 mark.
It targets 860 deliveries, having lowered that 2019 objective on account of delays in manufacturing of the A321neo.
Cebu Air, which operates below the model Cebu Pacific, signed a provisional deal for the 15 A320neo household planes in the course of the Paris Air Present in June.
In November,…