budget carrier air asia which operates an exclusively airbus fleet doesn't plan to switch
aircraft manufacturers despite a looming restructure which could lead to mass order cancellations
airasia is one of airbus's largest customers with a fleet of a320s a321s and a330s want
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airbus news so without any further ado let's begin the ultra low-cost airline retains just
has agreed to cut prices or rescheduled delivery for hundreds of jets ordered by malaysia's
air asia to salvage a contract worth tens of billions of dollars with its largest agent
customer industry sources set on friday in this resources set it had also stopped sending
progress payments to airbus prompting the plane maker to suspend plans to produce jets
on order pending the new restructuring deal the deal comes as other airlines in asia that
have ordered hundreds of jets to secure their growth are in the midst of restructuring or
are expected to press for relief other suppliers are also expected to come under pressure to
negotiate new conditions one of the sources said here asia x which posted a record net
loss of 34 billion ringgit in the financial year and that june 30th 2021 is one of the
several airline affiliates of malaysian budget carrier airasia group which was renamed capital
a in january as part of its pivot into digital businesses including fintech ride healing
as well as food and parcel deliveries despite this cancellation of orders the european aircraft
manufacturer is doing quite well in 2021 and even gained the upper hand over its historic
competitor boeing at the dubai air show which was held in recent days in total airbus landed
no less than 408 orders and order intentions from day one of the show he notably signed
a firm order for 255 a321 single aisle lanes with indigo partners right now air asia x
has a fleet of 20 airbus a3300s the airline has parked all but four of them and all 20
of them belong to lessers the airline counting lessers among its creditors airbus has counted
the two a350 deliveries for error fought in its annual tally in december as part of its
forecast beetle deliveries but the planes did not fly to russia airbus has also canceled
the associated aeroflot order data showed now that we've come to the end of this video
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