In spite of Brexit: aircraft builders to come optimistic to Farnborough

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The British industry fair between Brexit Fears and the hope of new large orders. And, of course, dispute the eternal rivals Boeing and Airbus dominated the betting. And in this year, small is hot.

The global air travel industry meets starting on Monday at the Farnborough airfield, southwest of London, to every two years held industry fair, the second largest in the world after the Paris air show. The UK is traditionally one of the most important aviation countries in the world, and the roots of the exhibition back to the 1920’s. To its present location, she moved back to 1948. This year, however, is likely to prevail because of the 2019 forthcoming Brexit for the future role of the British aviation industry, significant uncertainty Mr.

A new hope of the Airbus family: The canadian Bombardier group acquired the C-Series is for the Airbus A 220.

Airlines and manufacturers denounced recently equally the prevailing uncertainties and demanded clear rules. While Airlines can manage such as easyJet, for example by auxiliary constructs such as the establishment of subsidiary companies on the European continent, the production capacity is not so easy to relocate. Therefore, Airbus was criticized by the British strong, the European consortium of manufactures in Broughton a lot of the wings for its planes and threatened to least investment in the UK set if there is a “hard”, that is to say, Unger Brexit apply would.

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Smaller series in focus

However, day-to-day business in the sector continues still kicking. “We come to Farnborough with the solid base of a previously extremely strong year,” bursting the Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg self-confidence. Also, Airbus is more to flights of fancy, fuelled by the successful Takeover of the CSeries family of aircraft by Bombardier of Canada. On the day of the announcement of the new brand-name Airbus A220 Airbus was able to secure an important Order, the US company JetBlue ordered 60 machines. The spicy thing is that JetBlue uses to date in this Segment of 60 aircraft of the competitors, Embraer of Brazil. The goes, in turn, are now in a partnership with Boeing. Both world market leaders want to expand with the connection of a respective one of the two next largest companies in their product families at the bottom in the class of 100 – to 150-seater where neither Boeing nor Airbus were currently represented.

The background is that both giants are alone currently in the position, the needs of aircraft with a means to satisfy response in a timely manner. “The pressure on manufacturers in this area remains high, despite the full utilisation of production capacity, the delivery is lagging behind the needs of the client,” according to a recent study by the Munich-based consulting firm AlixPartners. “The order backlog reached a record level of about 11.700 aircraft – 145 percent more than in 2010.” However, applicants have Value that is outside of the Duopoly of the big Two heavy, last year, before recent Acquisitions, United you, only seven percent of the orders in the Segment of aircraft with one Central aisle. Now it will be even harder.

Also Boeing to buy wants: Namely, the regional jet program of the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer. In the image of an ERJ 190 of Copa Airlines.

Airbus giant A 380 as a Second-Hand variant

“Currently, the C919, the Chinese manufacturer Comac remains the only significant Alternative to the programmes of the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 families, which now dominate this market segment,” stated the consultant. You also assume that the aviation industry will continue to experience sustained growth. With an average increase in air traffic of 4.5 per cent in the next 20 years could double the fleet of transport aircraft almost, 22.300 machines in 2017 to almost 40,000 in the year 2037, – stated in the analysis.

The time of the real innovations in the transport aircraft division of all thing have passed since the last great firsts of the Airbus A350 (first flight in 2013) and Boeing 787 (first flight in 2009), as well as the A220 mutant Bombardier CSeries (first flight in 2013) to a large extent. The shows in Farnborough: Airbus and Boeing to present only the most recent further developments of existing models. It is also going to be the future of the giant aircraft A380, which has so far proven to be commercially a Flop. In Farnborough, one of the first A380, which began in 2007, the line service at Singapore Airlines, will be presented, as Second-Hand aircraft in the colors of a Portuguese Charter company. The A380 could still experience a late-flowering, to keep industry experts, however, unlikely.


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