{"id":709,"date":"2021-12-16T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lca.artwhere.co\/qantas-turns-to-airbus-for-domestic-fleet\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:50:26","slug":"qantas-turns-to-airbus-for-domestic-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lcanews.naphix.com\/en\/qantas-turns-to-airbus-for-domestic-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas turns to Airbus for domestic fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"viewer-title\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Australian flag carrier Qantas on Thursday announced a deal to buy 40 Airbus aircraft, to renew its domestic fleet.<\/span><\/h2>\n<article>Qantas has selected the Airbus A320neo and Airbus A220 families as the preferred aircraft for the long-term renewal of its domestic narrow-body fleet.<\/p>\n<p>A firm commitment for 40 aircraft \u2013 20 A321XLR (extra long-range) and 20 A220 aircraft \u2013 is expected to be placed with Airbus by the end of FY22, following discussions with employees about arrangements to operate the new aircraft types and a final decision by the Qantas Board.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas will also have a further 94 purchase right options on aircraft over a 10-plus year delivery window as its existing Boeing 737-800s and 717s are gradually phased out.<\/p>\n<p>The order is in addition to Jetstar\u2019s existing agreement with Airbus for over 100 aircraft in the A320neo family. Part of this new deal includes combining these two orders so that the Group can draw down on a total of 299 deliveries across both the A320 and A220 families as needed over the next decade and beyond for Qantas, QantasLink and Jetstar.<\/p>\n<p>Once finalised, this will represent the largest aircraft order in Australian aviation history.<\/p>\n<p>Financial details of the deal are commercial in confidence but represent a material discount from list prices.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s announcement follows a detailed review by the airline\u2019s engineering, flight operations, customer experience, network, fleet procurement and finance teams. The airline conducted detailed evaluation of the A320neo and B737 MAX families as well as the smaller A220 and Embraer E190\/195-E2s.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce said the airline had called the renewal of its domestic fleet Project Winton after the town where the national carrier was born 101 years ago, because it\u2019s a key strategic decision for the future of Qantas Domestic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a long-term renewal plan with deliveries and payments spread over the next decade and beyond, but the similarly long lead time for aircraft orders means we need to make these decisions now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQantas is in a position to make these commitments because of the way we\u2019ve navigated through the pandemic, which is a credit to the whole organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a clear sign of our confidence in the future and we\u2019ve locked in pricing just ahead of what\u2019s likely to be a big uptick in demand for next-generation narrow-body aircraft. That\u2019s good news for our customers, our people and our shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be having discussions with our people to ensure we have the arrangements necessary to support such a large investment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I thank Airbus, Boeing, Embraer and the engine manufacturers for the efforts they put into this process. This was a very tough choice to make. Each option delivered on our core requirements around safety, capability and emissions reductions. But when you multiply even small benefits in areas like range or cost across this many aircraft and over the 20 years they\u2019ll be in the fleet, Airbus was the right choice as preferred tenderer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Airbus deal had the added advantage of providing ongoing flexibility within the order, meaning we can continue to choose between the entire A320neo and A220 families depending on our changing needs in the years ahead. The ability to combine the Jetstar and Qantas order for the A320 type was also a factor.<\/p>\n<p>The order is a blow to US planemaker Boeing, which currently supplies much of Qantas&#8217; domestic fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian firm has been battered by the Covid-19 crisis, which has seen Australia&#8217;s borders closed for much of the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>The company on Thursday also announced it was about US$4 billion in debt, but expected domestic capacity to return to pre-Covid levels by March 2022.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian flag carrier Qantas on Thursday announced a deal to buy 40 Airbus aircraft, to renew its domestic fleet. Qantas has selected the Airbus A320neo and Airbus A220 families as the preferred aircraft for the long-term renewal of its domestic narrow-body fleet. A firm commitment for 40 aircraft \u2013 20 A321XLR (extra long-range) and 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":4270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,56,61],"tags":[136,8137],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afp","category-afp-en","category-australie","category-eco","tag-qantas","tag-qantas-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Qantas turns to Airbus for domestic fleet - LCANews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lcanews.naphix.com\/en\/qantas-turns-to-airbus-for-domestic-fleet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Qantas turns to Airbus for domestic fleet - LCANews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australian flag carrier Qantas on Thursday announced a deal to buy 40 Airbus aircraft, to renew its domestic fleet. 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