Mumbai: The battle between the world's top two plane manufactures for supremacy in the Indian skies is turning into a war. For now, Airbus has the advantage.
The European plane maker has 196 of its commercial passenger aircraft flying in India, compared with Boeing's 160.
Airbus' potential delivery backlog looks huge. It has signed an initial pact with IndiGo for 250 planes and has an earlier firm order for another 180. That, coupled with other orders takes its likely volumes over next ten years to 516. The nation's newest local carriers, Tata Sons joint ventures Vistara and AirAsia India, have both picked Airbus as their initial choice.
Boeing's visible backlog is much smaller at 59 planes, which include long-haul Dreamliners to Air India and Jet Airways as well as narrow-bodied 737Max planes to SpiceJet. There have been talks of an order for fifty 737Max from Jet, but that hasn't been announced.
07/04/15 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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The European plane maker has 196 of its commercial passenger aircraft flying in India, compared with Boeing's 160.
Airbus' potential delivery backlog looks huge. It has signed an initial pact with IndiGo for 250 planes and has an earlier firm order for another 180. That, coupled with other orders takes its likely volumes over next ten years to 516. The nation's newest local carriers, Tata Sons joint ventures Vistara and AirAsia India, have both picked Airbus as their initial choice.
Boeing's visible backlog is much smaller at 59 planes, which include long-haul Dreamliners to Air India and Jet Airways as well as narrow-bodied 737Max planes to SpiceJet. There have been talks of an order for fifty 737Max from Jet, but that hasn't been announced.
07/04/15 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
