Delta Air Lines has placed a firm order for 50 new Airbus widebody aircraft, including 25 A350-900 and 25 A330-900neo aircraft.
Delta Air Lines has placed a firm order for 50 new Airbus widebody aircraft, including 25 A350-900 and 25 A330-900neo aircraft.
The European planemaker won the $14 billion deal by competing with rival Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Boeing said the deal was lost due to lack of available delivery slots.
Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines will power the Airbus A330neo aircraft and Trent XWB engines will power Airbus A350 XWB aircraft. The Rolls-Royce deal is worth $5billion and include long-term TotalCare® service support from Delta Air Lines to power 50 new aircraft.
Delta Air Lines currently flies both Airbus single-aisle and widebody aircraft, including 57 A319ceo and 69 A320ceo aircraft, plus 11 A330-200s and 21 A330-300s. In addition to the order announced today, Delta has an order backlog of 10 A330-300s and 45 A321ceo aircraft, bringing its total Airbus backlog to 105 aircraft.
Delta is one of the successful U.S. airline today, that has flown passengers around the world for more than 80 years, has 80-thousand employees and 165 million customers in a year.
