Twitter traffic bearing #dxb11 is on the increase as we near the opening of Dubai Airshow 2011.
Dubai Airshow usually brings cheer to an otherwise depressed industry with mega orders form the GCC airlines. Expectations are high, certainly because we have been told by Emirates and Qatar Airways to expect "bombshell" orders. What they did not tell us was what are the orders.
I don't usually like to speculate, but #dxb11 is tomorrow and it is a festive occasion so why not.
Starting with the easy ones
- ALAFCO the leasing company from Kuwait announced they will order 50 A320 NEOs.
- Qatar Airways hinted strongly about additional A380s and A320 NEOs. Now, probably a
Bombardier C series order (as a pay off for getting Canada traffic rights at the time the airlines of
the Gulf were the bad guys) maybe forthcoming, someone has to cheer up Bombardier.
- Emirates will probably order some A380s (two dozen or so) and probably B777s. What will be cool
is, if they have managed to push Boeing to offer the upgraded B777 bringing the aircraft performance on
par with the A350.
Enough, so patience please, will find out in the coming few days, for sure
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