China pens multi billion pound deal for 130 Airbus jets

China Aviation Supplies Holding Company (CAS) a state-owned Chinese enterprise has signed a deal with Airbus to buy 30 A330 Family aircraft and 100 A320 Family aircraft.

• The 30 A330s are the firm up of the commitment signed in June 2015.
• Wings for the order made in Broughton.

The deal was signed in Beijing by Li Hai, President and CEO of CAS, and Fabrice Brégier, President and CEO of Airbus, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel were also present.

Fabrice Bregier, President and CEO of Airbus

“We are grateful to CAS, one of our longest standing customers, for its continued confidence in Airbus and in the versatile A330 Family as well as the best-selling A320 Family, with these 30 A330 options now firmed up, CAS’ total number of orders for the popular Airbus widebody is this year 75 aircraft.

Strong demand in China for the A330 has been the key driver behind Airbus’ decision to set up an A330 assembly plant Tianjin, China next to the A320 Family final assembly line and delivery centre in Tianjin, which has assembled and delivered more than 240 Airbus single aisle aircraft

At present Chinese airlines operate over 1,200 Airbus aircraft.