AIRBUS WINS MASSIVE ORDERS FROM CHINA

Airbus has secured orders from Air China, China Eastern, China Southern, and Shenzhen Airlines for a total of 292 A320 Family aircraft, underscoring the recovery momentum and prosperous outlook for the Chinese aviation market. Airbus Chief Commercial Officer and Head of International Christian Scherer said: "These new orders demonstrate the strong confidence in Airbus from our customers. It is also a solid endorsement from our airline customers in China of the performance, quality, fuel efficiency and sustainability of the world's leading family of single-aisle aircraft.” “We commend the excellent work by George Xu and the entire Airbus China team as well as our customers’ teams for bringing to a conclusion these long and extensive discussions that have taken place throughout the difficult COVID pandemic.” At the end of May 2022, the in-service Airbus fleet with Chinese operators totalled over 2,070 aircraft and the A320neo Family had totalled more than 8,000 orders from over 130 customers. READ: Tim Clark: I would build another A380 only twice the size. SEE: Geoffrey Thomas discusses airport chaos About AirlineRatings.com Airlineratings.com was developed to provide everyone in the world a one-stop shop for everything related to airlines, formed by a team of aviation editors, who have forensically researched nearly every airline in the world. Our rating system is rated from one to seven stars on safety – with seven being the highest ranking. Within each airline, you will find the country of origin, airline code, booking URL and seat map information. The rating system takes into account a number of different factors related to audits from aviation’s governing bodies, lead associations, as well as the airlines, own safety data. Every airline has a safety rating breakdown so you can see exactly how they rate. Over 230 of the airlines on the site that carry 99 per cent of the world’s passengers have a product rating. Given that low-cost, regional and full-service carriers are so different we have constructed a different rating system for each which can be found within each airline.