By Mr. Hugo Friederich and Mr. Yizhe Jiang
Business
330 orders of C919 and ARJ21 for COMAC !
Chinese manufacturer COMAC announced that it received 330 orders at the Zhuhai Air Show. The orders are for 300 C919 and 30 ARJ21. According to the Xinhua agency, they were placed by the leasing companies China Development Bank Leasing, ICBC Leasing, CCB Financial Leasing, BOCOM Leasing, CMB Financial Leasing, SPDB Financial Leasing and Suyin Financial Leasing.
Certified by the CAAC last September, the C919, designed to compete with the A320 and B737, is expected “before the end of the year” by the launch airline China Eastern Airlines, for its subsidiary OTT Airlines (5 examples have been ordered in 2021).
The ARJ21 has been issued in service by at least 7 Chinese airlines, including OTT in 2020 but also Air China, China Southern, Chengdu Airlines, China Express Airlines, Jiangxi Air and Genghis Khan Airlines. More than 80 aircraft have been delivered to date and are flying on domestic routes in China.
Airbus orders & deliveries update
Airbus booked 177 gross orders in October and handed over 60 aircraft to 38 customers. With 495 net deliveries since the beginning of the year, Airbus is getting closer to its annual target of 700 aircraft to be delivered by 2022. In October, the aircraft manufacturer booked 177 orders: IAG confirmed 31 A320neo and 28 A321neo, Air Canada acquired 15 additional A220- 300s, Xiamen Airlines acquired 25 A320neo and 15 A321neo, and Jet2 35 A320neo. Another 28 A321neo are also booked for an unidentified customer or customers.
China officially announces orders for 140 Airbus, A320neo and A350
China officially announced contracts for Airbus aircraft worth $17 billion (€17.4 billion) on Friday, November 4, during a visit by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. China’s state procurement agency, China Aviation Supplies Holding (CASC), said it had signed a global agreement for 140 Airbus aircraft, including 132 A320s and eight A350s. An Airbus spokesman said the Chinese announcement covered contracts already on its books, including part of a 292-aircraft deal struck last July.
https://simpleflying.com/china-firms-17-billion-airbus-aircraft-order/
No new Aircraft from Boeing in this decade!
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun, speaking Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the company’s 1st investor briefing since the pandemic, refuted the idea that it could develop a brand new airliner in the late 2020s. Boeing had suggested that a new project might be feasible later in the 2020s if that overall digital production goal could be met, even with a relatively modest improvement in engine technology. Yet Dave Calhoun assures us, “We won’t consider a new aircraft, we won’t even put it on the drawing board, until we know we can do it. The propulsion technology that will be needed to achieve at least a 20 percent jump in fuel efficiency is still not in sight, he says. The company needs to stay the course on its long-term goals for lower-cost digital manufacturing and maintain “the discipline to build those underlying technologies so that the next one is truly differentiated,” he said. Meanwhile, Boeing is focusing its sustainability efforts on certifying each of its commercial products to run on 100 percent sustainable jet fuel by 2030.
Industry
French Government to devote €5 billion for decarbonizing industry
“We are going to devote €5 billion, from the France 2030 plan, to decarbonize our industry,” announced the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.
- 4 billion will target major projects, which are particularly relevant to the most emitting sites.
- 1 billion will target smaller companies and startups.
- 200 million will also be mobilized for research. “If, within eighteen months, you are able to guarantee 10 million tons of additional savings, we will double the envelope, with an additional €5 billion,” Emmanuel Macron promised manufacturers.
The sectors will have to validate ambitious roadmaps to have access to this additional funding. In total, the government plans to devote €10 billion to decarbonizing industry.
Airlines
Ryanair announces a record profit in the first half of the year
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair announced on Monday, November 7, that it made a profit of €1.371 billion in the first half of its off-year. Ryanair is pleased with “record traffic in the second quarter”, and “strong operational reliability and robust summer fares, 14% higher than pre-Covid prices”. Summer traffic recovered strongly to 95.1 million passengers, up from 39.1 million a year earlier. This is more than before the pandemic (in 2019, 85.7 million passengers had been transported over the same period). The company says it is raising its “traffic forecast for the 2022/2023 financial year to 168 million passengers (from 166.5 million), which marks an increase of 13% compared to pre-Covid traffic”.
Jobs
Airbus increases its recruitment
Airbus has been recruiting more and more people since the beginning of the school year, to keep up with the increase in production rates for commercial aircraft, especially the A320 family. The company announced a recruitment campaign for 6,000 people worldwide, including 1,500 on its 11 French sites. “We are finally going to recruit more than 2,000 people in France, and will continue to do so in 2023,” confirms Mikael Butterbach, Director of Human Resources for France. This does not include the recruitment of 1,500 temporary staff and the addition of 1,500 apprentices and long-term trainees. “We are working on the 100% decarbonized aircraft in 2035, which will run on hydrogen, and also on sustainable fuels for all our commercial aircraft in 2030. So we’re looking for specific skills,” explains the HR director. We’re also looking for operational managers and support functions in export and legal affairs. Airbus will be participating in the Toulouse Technologies Forum on November 26, to recruit for digital jobs, and in a job dating event at Apec in Paris on December 8, aimed at technicians and managers. The aircraft manufacturer has also created an apprenticeship program this year, the Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate applied to the aeronautics and space sector, at its Saint-Eloi site in Toulouse.
https://lopinion.com/articles/economie/15018_toulouse-commandes-airbus-manque-employes
