Airbus has secured it second major deal at the Dubai Airshow.
The aerospace giant yesterday announced an order for 255 aircraft from Indigo Partners.
Today Air Lease Corporation signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) covering all Airbus Families.
The agreement is for 25 A220-300s, 55 A321neos, 20 A321XLRs, four A330neos and includes seven A350Fs.
The wings for the planes will be assembled at Airbus Broughton, expect for the A220s which are made at the Belfast factory.
The order which will be finalised in the coming months, makes the Los Angeles based ALC one of Airbus’ largest customers and lessor with the biggest A220 order book.
Founded in 2010, ALC has ordered a total of 496 Airbus aircraft to date.
With this order ALC and Airbus are launching a multi-million dollar ESG fund initiative that will contribute towards investment into sustainable aviation development projects that will in the future be opened to multiple stakeholders from the aircraft leasing and financing community and beyond.
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Steven F Udvar-Hazy, Executive Chairman of Air Lease Corporation, said: "This new order announcement is the culmination of many months of hard work and dedication by both organisations to optimise and fine tune the size and scope of this large aircraft transaction in view of the rapidly growing global airline demand to modernise their jet fleets through the ALC leasing medium.
“After lengthy and detailed consultations with several dozen of our strategic airline customers around the world, we are focusing this comprehensive order on the most desirable and in demand aircraft types, covering the A220, A321neo, A330neo and A350 families. ALC is an international Market Leader in each of these categories of the most modern Airbus product lineup. These multi- year additions of new technology aircraft assets to ALC’s expanding portfolio will allow us to grow our revenues and profitability while satisfying our airline customer requirements.”
Udvar-Hazy added: ” In addition we are very enthusiastic to have inked a partnership for a sustainability fund which will contribute to the green future for our industry.”
Christian Scherer, Airbus Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Airbus International, said: "This is a major announcement for Airbus in 2021.
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"ALC’s order signals we’re moving beyond the Covid doldrums. With foresight, ALC is solidifying its order portfolio for the most desirable aircraft types as we exit the crisis and in particular, it has seen the formidable value the A350F brings to the cargo market.
"ALC’s endorsement confirms the global enthusiasm we see for this quantum leap in the freighter space and we applaud its insightfulness in selecting it and in beating everyone to the finish line for the first A350F order announcement. In addition we agreed to make our sustainable aviation vision part of this agreement which is a priority for us both."