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Qantas Deal Pushes Airbus Orders to Over 1,200

October 10, 2011
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Business Aviation Airbus Deal
Airbus Orders Fly With Qantas Deals
Qantas have finalised plan to acquire 110 A320 aircraft. Airbus is saying that the level of orders and commitments for the type now stands at 1,245.
 

Aviation Week reported that with enough deals now secured, Airbus has now topped its previous top order intake, achieved in 2007, of 1,458 aircraft. Whilst some deals, namely Air France-KLM’s purchase of 60 A350XWBs and Republic Airways’s deal for 80 A319NEOs have yet to hit the order books.

Qantas will start fielding its NEOs in 2015, engine selection has not yet been finalised.
Alan Joyce, Qantas CEO states that “the Airbus A320 will be the launch aircraft for Qantas’ new, premium airline based in Asia and will support Jetstar’s expansion plans – including the establishment of Jetstar Japan.”

RAF Reapers

September 14, 2011
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RAF Reapers - Business Aviation NewsThe RAF Reapers is pretty incredible, this long endurance Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) has a maximum altitude of 50,000ft and maximum speed of 250kts; and now it looks like the UK Ministry of Defence is planning to field a follow-on batch starting delivery in 2012. More details news can be read here from Flightglobal. However, historically, the Reapers were controlled at US Air Force in Nevada, and that the UK have announced in May that the Reapers will be controlled from the UK. I wonder if the new batch will come under the UK control as well.