DUBAI — the 2017 Dubai Air Show is in the books, and despite the tens of billions of dollars of purchase activity, the biggest story from the show may well be a purchase that didn’t happen.
In years to come, we may well look back at Dubai 2017 as the moment the Airbus A380 program truly became ‘a dead man walking’ after Emirates declined to order the superjumbo without a massive, 10-year production commitment from Airbus.
Beyond that, Airbus and Boeing each received more than $40 billion of orders and commitments, and even secondary manufacturers like Bombardier and Sukhoi found success in Dubai, which is not necessarily a common occurrence.
*Note: We only present new orders, not confirmations of previous orders.
Indigo Partners – 274x A320neo, 156 A321neo
TOTAL : 457 commitments (455x A320neo family, 2x A330neo family)
flydubai – 175x + 50x options 737 MAX family
TOTAL – 227 (180x 737 MAX family, 2x 777 family, 45x 787 family)