Business Traveler, February 2015
30 n February 2015 Visit businesstravelerusa com n Cover Story AIRBUS SAS 2014 AIRLINE ORDERS At the end of March Airbus had orders for 778 A350 aircraft ranging from the A350 800 to the A350 1000 More than 40 customers have been announced and they include pretty much every airline you will have heard of from Aer Lingus Air France British Airways Finnair and Lufthansa through to Asian carriers such as Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines and Gulf carriers such as launch customer Qatar Airways and Etihad Traditionally US carriers ordered Boeing aircraft but in the order book for the A350 youll find American Airlines it took over the US Airways orders with its merger while United and Delta also added Airbus to their Boeing fleets of aircraft in this range It poses stiff competition for Boeings own 787 although of course this has its own order book of nearly 1100 and climbing
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