Airbus Industrie records more orders<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Airbus Industrie, a European consortium, booked
\norders for 124 planes during the first three months of this year,
\nrepresenting a 16 percent increase over the whole year of 1995,
\nits press relations manager Sean Lee said yesterday.<\/p>\n
In 1995, the consortium took orders for 106 planes, compared
\nwith the 125 planes booked in 1994, he said.<\/p>\n
\"Out of 124 aircraft ordered in the January-March period of
\nthis year, 30 were ordered by China,\" he said.<\/p>\n
China early last month sealed a deal to acquire 30 A-320
\npassenger jets from Airbus. The US$1.77 billion package,
\nincluding three confirmed orders of three A-340 jets, was made
\nduring a visit to France by Chinese Premier Li Peng.<\/p>\n
Airbus, owned jointly by France's Aerospatiale and Germany's
\nDaimler Benz Aerospace (each control 37.9 percent), British
\nAerospace (20 percent) and Spain's CASA (4.2 percent), was beaten
\nout last year by its competitors, the American McDonnell Douglas
\nand Boeing Co., for two big contracts. Instead of choosing Airbus
\nairliners, the Scandinavian SAS airline decided early last year
\nto buy 35 Boeing jets, while the U.S. company Valujet chose 50
\nMcDonnell Douglas jets.<\/p>\n
Lee yesterday said: \"Though Airbus doesn't manufacture any
\n400-seat aircraft, the company currently has a 30 percent share
\nof the world jet market.\"<\/p>\n
The three leading jet manufacturers in the world are Airbus,
\nMcDonnell Douglas and Boeing Co.<\/p>\n
Airbus manufactures twin-engine short-to-medium range single
\naisle aircraft such as the 124-seat A-319 jet, twin-engine
\nmedium-to-long range wide-body planes such as the 335-seat A-330-
\n300 jet, the twin engine long range wide-body A-330-200 jet and
\nthe four engine ultra-long range wide-body airplanes such as the
\n295-seat A-340-300 jet.<\/p>\n
Airbus, which had a turnover of $9.6 billion in 1995, plans to
\ndevelop an aircraft with a capacity of between 600 and 800
\npassengers after 2003.<\/p>\n
Airbus recorded total sales of 2,024 firm orders from 123
\ncustomers worldwide at the end of March. There are currently 129
\nfirms worldwide operating 1,362 Airbus jets.<\/p>\n
Lee said yesterday that the final assembly of the first new
\ngeneration A-330-300 twin-engine wide-body jet for flag carrier
\nGaruda Indonesia is now underway in Toulouse, France, with
\ndelivery scheduled for next December.<\/p>\n
Garuda signed in Singapore last month a deal for the leasing
\nof six Airbus A-330-300 aircraft, which were initially ordered
\nfor procurement from the European consortium Airbus Industrie
\nabout seven years ago.<\/p>\n
The aircraft are the first six of a batch of nine A-330-300s
\nordered by Garuda, which has chosen Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, a
\nGerman leasing company, as the arranger of the lease.<\/p>\n
Lee said that each A-330-300 aircraft is currently worth
\nUS$117 million.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Airbus assistant to senior vice president of
\nengineering, Gerard Guyot, said he has been appointed as an
\nadvisor at the state-owned aircraft assembler PT IPTN.<\/p>\n
\"I will be involved in the safety flight test of the N-250
\naircraft. This is part of know-how transfer to IPTN,\" he
\nsaid.(icn)<\/p>",
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