An Airbus A350-1000 passenger plane runs during the 55th edition of the Paris International Air Show (SALON INTERNATIONAL DE L’EONAUTIQUE et de l’Espace – SIAE) at the Parisle Bourget airport, in Le Bourget, north of Paris, France, on June 18, 2025.
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Airbus Orders and new models have taken the central stage at this year’s Paris Air Show, as its American rival Boeing Spend another important event of the industry that maintains a low profile due to agitation in the business.
Airlines and manufacturers use aerial shows as an opportunity to make ads for purchase purchases with splashes after months of negotiations, some of which will be wrapped in the event. Airbus had accumulated almost $ 21 billion until Thursday morning, according to a reuters calculation.
That included 132 signing orders on Monday, of customers, including the Saudi lease firm, Availease, Ana de Japan and the lot of Poland, versus 41 for Boeing and 15 for the Brazilian Embraer, according to a Tally of Aviation Advisory Iba.
The next two days they saw Boeing stop completely from the ads, while Airbus splashed a memorandum of understanding of 150 aircraft with Vietjet Air focused on its A350 A321 of Aisly of a single corridor, and orders with Egytair and Starux Airlines for its A350 wide body.
The head of Air Asia, Tony Fernandes, told CNBC on Thursday that he was in discussions in Paris about the expansion of the company’s existing order for the Airbus XLR, the new narrow and long -range body flagship plane based in Toulouse, and expected an announcement within next month or so. The model, which entered the service last year, is configured to allow airlines to offer medium and long distance routes at lower rates due to the reduction of fuel costs.
Embraer also won a key victory on Wednesday with 60 firm orders for E175, along with other options.
Demand for the ‘strong’ industry
Boeing’s relatively quiet presence in Paris is not indicative of a broader demand crisis in the sector. The manufacturer sealed many orders during the May trip of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to the Middle East, including an agreement of 210 jetes with Qatar Airways.
Meanwhile, both Boeing and Airbus have accumulations of aircraft of more than 5,000 and 8,000 aircraft, respectively, figures that have barely moved for almost a decade as the industry supplies challenges, exacerbated following the pandemic, leaves the airlines that fight to renew their adequate tires.
John Plueger, executive director of Air Lease Corp, told CNBC earlier this week that the accumulated meant that it was always expected to be a show under Paris compared to the past, including the year of boom after the pandemic of 2023 “. Both Airbus and Boeing are sold at 2031 and ’32 Anyway. The demand environment remains very robust,” Plueger said.
However, this marks another year in which Boeing has refrained from the flies of the aircraft or the main promotional activities. As of 2019, following the two fatal clashes of its B737-Max model, followed by the pandemic that threw the industry into agitation, and then with new crises delivered through an emergency exit burst, the accusations of the problems of generalized quality control and the increasingly discreet customers for the delivery of the delivery, Boeing has had a host of reasons to avoid the focus.
Just as 2025 appeared as if he could represent an tentative turning point for the company, with the Kelly Ortberg CEO because it will attend Paris, the first accident of a Boeing Dreamliner in the Air India disaster last week threw it into the disaster. Ortberg retired from attending the event, and the firm has made few press ads while saying that he focuses on his clients and on research on the causes of the accident.
“The demand for new planes is still unprecedented, coinciding only with the demand for air travel passengers,” said Tony Payne, a partner of the DLA Piper law firm.
He added that orders are still strong despite a “gloomy and reflective environment” following the accident of Air India, since interested parties are “very aware of the impact” that any relaxation of the standards can have.
“The orders for new aircraft and engines remain strong, but together with a gloomy and reflective environment, where interested parties are aware of the impact of any relaxation of the standards it can have.”
Therefore, “silenced” has become the word of the week in terms of commercial aviation, while the defense, which constitutes almost half of the content of the program this year, assumes a larger role in the midst of a Middle East conflict, the War of Russia-Ukraine and a next NATO summit in which the greatest national security expense will be high on the agenda. Offers in this space have included Such‘Contract to build 48 of its new remote operation artillery systems for the French government.
“The consequences, the impact of the Air India accident” are hanging on Paris, said the CEO of Airbus Guillaume Faury on CNBC on Monday. “Even so, the impulse in the industry is very strong,” he continued, observing a particular demand for wide body aircraft that had more than updating after the pandemic than the narrow body market.
Dan Taylor, head of consulting at IBA, told CNBC that the division between Boeing and Airbus this year was “more about the context than competition.”
“The recent orders of Boeing in the Middle East, helped by the diplomatic commitment of the United States, and its quiet posture after the air, India probably influenced its lower visibility in the Paris Air show. This is not a sign of demand weakening, but a deliberate pause in the middle of a geopolitical retrocos and possible no defier.
“It is likely that the airlines are occupied reevaluating the strategies of the fleet given the last crisis, but the strong profitability, the aged fleets, the ease of the levels of debt and the continuous GDP and the growth of the demand for travel in many regions point to a long -term sustained appetite by new aircraft.”
