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Here is a video of a fighter plane at the Paris Air Show.

It looks like an Euro fighter which according to Wikipedia “is a twin-engine multi-role canard-delta strike fighter aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers.”

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Airbus appears to have landed firm orders for 425 aircraft, with a further commitment of 303 aircraft at the Paris Air Show.

Boeing’s count for firm booking’s at this stage seems to be 66 jets.

Airbus secured agreements for 728 aircraft during the Paris Air Show after landing firm orders for 425 and commitments for a further 303, eclipsing Boeing’s firm booking of 66 jets.

Airbus has tended to reserve order declarations for the flagship French show, and the company has been particularly keen to offset last year’s poor publicity regarding delays to its A350 and A380 projects.

Get more details about the break up of the orders by customer base and aircraft type here

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Here is a video of the Airbus A 380 at the Paris Air Show, from YouTube. Looks like the video was from a hand held camera.

The commentary in the background appears to be in French, I did not understand it.
Anyway, here is the video.

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China & India are the big emerging markets for aviation.

Air China and Aviation Partners Boeing have reached an agreement to assure Air China’s future deliveries of Boeing 737-800 aircraft will be equipped with Blended Winglets. The firm order for 25 shipsets scheduled to deliver from October of this year through 2010 provides Air China, the Airline Partner of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, with the most competitive aircraft in the demanding Chinese market. With this order, over 240 737-NG aircraft in China will be equipped with winglets.

On the other hand, India is also having a strong presence at the 47th International air show in Paris. The tip seems to be that Kingfisher Airlines from India will make an important announcement at the event. Key players from Jet Airways (India), Air India and Air Deccan are also expected to be at the show.

My tip is: watch this space for more announcements!

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Boeing and Airbus continued on with a spree of orders being placed for their aircraft today.
Boeing reported on Wednesday it had won an order for 16 planes from Air France KLM. Air France put in an order of 9 Boeing 777-300 ER model wide bodied planes.

KLM put in an order of 7 of Boeing’s single aisle 737-700 planes.

The total deal is worth around $2.7 billion at list prices.

Meanwhile, rival Airbus announced that it had received a significant order from Russian airline Aeroflot for 22 of its A350 XWB aircraft.

It will be interesting to see which aircraft manufacturer ends up with the largest amount of sales, both in terms of the revenue from sales and number of airplanes sold, by the end of this year.

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A number of interesting announcements today.

Airbus said it is back in business today as it announced both of its flagship aircraft programmes were on track.

President and chief executive Louis Gallois said: ‘I can tell you with full confidence that Airbus is back.’

Gallois told a press conference at the Paris Air Show that Airbus is on track to deliver its first A380 to Singapore Airlines in October.

He also said the development of A350 XWB, which has reportedly caused some uncertainty in the market, is also on schedule.

Read more from Forbes here

Delta Airlines talked about the need to replace its widebody fleet and of putting in some big orders, but were still undecided on whether to go with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner or the Airbus A350XWB.

“We do need to make a decision really by the end of this year on the 767 replacement, because we will need to start taking those in 2013-2014,” said Jim Whitehurst, Delta’s chief operating officer, in an interview at the Paris Air Show.

Read more about this story from Reuters here.

Finally Bomarbier sees more demand for business jets in the near future. Tighter airport security and healthy corporate profits worldwide are driving demand for Bombardier’s “flying boardrooms,”

Read more about this story from CNN here.

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