Paris Airshow 2015

[Grahame Hutchison]

Paris Airshow June 15: Boeing and Garuda announced today that the airline will purchase 30 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, and up to 30 B737 MAX 8 aircraft. Garuda signed letter of intent to purchase 30 A350 XWBs.

Qatar Airways orders 10 more B777-8X and 4 B777F (additional to the 50 B777-9X on order).

EVA Air order 5 B777F.

Saudi Airlines to be launch customer for the new A330-300 Regional (20 aircraft).

Falcon 8 to debut at PAS15.

Bombardier debut C Series CS100 (static) & CS300 (flying) at PAS15.

China Airlines to unveil spectacular new interior on their B777-300ER (static display).

Bell 407 GXP and 429 WLG on display.

Al Baker says Qatar will leave One World if no settlement on US / Middle East Government Subsidy issue (#ME3vsUS3).

ALC order one A350-900 and 4 A320.

Swiss convert 10 CS100 orders into CS300.

United orders up to 28 Embraer E175 aircraft (10 firm and 18 options).

[Mitch G]

Hope it's alright for me to post here.

GECAS has announced a firm order for 60 A320neo Family aircraft including the A321neo.

Saudi Arabian Airlines also ordered 30 A320ceo's.

Alpha Star has ordered a single ACJ319neo, becoming the launch customer for this model.

The government of Qatar also signed an agreement for the purchase of four more C-17 Globemaster III's.

[Adrian B]

The government of Qatar also signed an agreement for the purchase of four more C-17 Globemaster III's.

I wonder if one of them will be called Sepp Blatter???

[Grahame Hutchison]

Airbus talks about a "slight stretch" of the A380 as it prepares for a decision on the launch of the A380 Neo

Sriwijaya Air orders two Boeing 737-900ERS for delivery in July and August

Cebu Pacific orders 16 high density ATR 72-600s

Peach Aviation has ordered 3 A320s

Braathens Aviation has ordered 5 ATR 72-600s with options for ten more.

China's Ruili Airlines orders 30 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft and CFM LEAP-1Bs

Guizhou Airlines orders 17 GE CF34-10E powered Embraer E190s

SMBC Aviation Capital order 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8s

AerCap order 100 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft

Air New Zealand take delivery of their seventh ATR 72-600

Qatar Airlines wins "Airline Of The Year 2015"

[Terence W]

Paris Airshow June 15: Boeing and Garuda announced today that the airline will purchase 30 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, and up to 30 B737 MAX 8 aircraft. Garuda signed letter of intent to purchase 30 A350 XWBs.

Interesting that Garuda is taking the same approach as Vietnam airlines in splitting the fleet between 787s and A350s.

[Mitch G]

Air Lease Corporation announced new long term lease contracts with Vietnam Airlines that converted the previous eight Boeing 787-9 aircraft to eight new Boeing 787-10s.

Korean has also signed a MoU for 50 A321neos, and made a deal with Boeing for 50 737 Max 8 & 2 777-300ER.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Flightglobal (http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQqQIwAGoVChMIr-6pheyVxgIVZeimCh2YLQBy&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flightglobal.com%2Fnews%2Fart icles%2Fanalysis-paris-air-show-2015-order-tracker-update-413551%2F&ei=N_GAVe_2E-XQmwWY24CQBw&usg=AFQjCNGnUxyKjbQorjZl004XV7KRc1moSQ&sig2=z13nng-odRp3bWAvCZLc1w) Order Analysis - Paris 2015

676 - Order Commitments
116 - Options

792 - Total

[Mitch G]

Just coming through now that Volga-Dnepr has signed an MOU for 20 747-8Fs.

The agreement also adds the Antonov-124-100 aircraft to the long-term logistics support for Boeing and its partners.

[Grahame Hutchison]

That's great news for the Boeing 747-8 production line, as Boeing was adjusting the rate down from 1.75/month to 1.5/month because of slow demand. At 1.5 that's over 13 months of production.

Ethiopian have ordered 6 more B787s to complement their existing 13 Dreamliners.

Air Baltic to be CS300 launch customer, firming up its seven options.

Vietjet Vietnam have ordered 6 A321neo

Un-named Asian Airline signs MoU for 60 A320neo

Airbus announces passenger-to-freighter conversions for the A320 family (A320P2F to customers in 2018 - a joint offering with ST Aerospace)

Air Astina signs for 2 A320neo, 1 A321neo, and 4 A321neoLR (first to sign for this model)

Boeing launches BBJ Max 9

[Mitch G]

That's great news for the Boeing 747-8 production line, as Boeing was adjusting the rate down from 1.75/month to 1.5/month because of slow demand. At 1.5 that's over 13 months of production.

Absolutely, hopefully this set of orders will add up and help to tie the production line over until they start the new VC-25's for the US.

[Mitch G]

ST Engineering has signed a deal with Airbus to convert A320's into freighter planes.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Boeing have released another version of the #PAS15 Dreamliner Rehersal video with Youtube, this time you can swap between three cameras views
in real time. Only appears to work on web browsers, not IOS devices.

Watch The Video (https://www.youtube.com/user/Boeing/ChooseYourView)

[Garry Emanuel]

There seems to have been a lull in reporting of new orders or is it just my imagination ?

[MarkR]

Ethiopian have ordered 6 more B787s to complement their existing 13 Dreamliners.

Believe these are early build frames.

[Grahame Hutchison]

They are known as the 'terrible teens' because that's where their Constructor Numbers sit, and they have a number of problems that take a month to fix for each aircraft (overweight being one of the problems that is probably not fixed). I think one of the other issues was the centre to rear fuselage join (a slight misalignment). They probably picked them up at a great price, as they have just been parked for a few years now, with 5 ton concrete blocks hanging from the engine mounts.

[MarkR]

Absolutely, hopefully this set of orders will add up and help to tie the production line over until they start the new VC-25's for the US.

Leeham are reporting overnight that the MOU is unlikely to have a positive impact on production rates as the need for aircraft is spread over seven years and involves at least two white tails already in process.

http://leehamnews.com/2015/06/23/volga-deal-for-747-8fs-not-as-solid-as-assumed-by-some-production-rate-reduction-likely/

[Terence W]

They are known as the 'terrible teens' because that's where their Constructor Numbers sit, and they have a number of problems that take a month to fix for each aircraft (overweight being one of the problems that is probably not fixed). I think one of the other issues was the centre to rear fuselage join (a slight misalignment). They probably picked them up at a great price, as they have just been parked for a few years now, with 5 ton concrete blocks hanging from the engine mounts.

Sorry, this probably belongs in the 787 thread- happy to move it there if you like... Another one of my unexplained curiosities - how do they join the fuselage sections anyway?

[Grahame Hutchison]

Hi Terence, This is a photograph I shot of the "Forward to Center" fuselage join on Dreamliner
ZA001. As you can see, there is a wide vertical band bolted over the actual join, then horizontal
doublers over the top of the vertical band. The white areas between the doublers is the actual
composite fuselage structure (skin). The two rectangular pieces glued to the fuselage skin at
the top left of the vertical band, are for harmonic vibration dampening from memory, and can
be seen in a few places on the inside of the composite fuselage.

http://www.16right.com/MessageBoard/D300-2011-11-16-132.jpg

http://www.16right.com/MessageBoard/D300-2011-11-16-016.jpg

[Terence W]

Thanks Grahame - appreciate the insight!!

[Rowan McKeever]

Thanks heaps for sharing that, Grahame... really cool to be able to see inside the structure :)