Paris Air Show kicks off with sensational contract

Paris Air Show Kicks Off with Record Deal Airbus has announced a record 500-aircraft deal with Indian airline IndiGo. In second place are air defense contracts and spare parts.

The Paris Air Show became the site of record deals, writes xrust. Airbus' multibillion-dollar contract with IndiGo even blocked the deal between Air_India and Airbus, Boeing a few months ago. Then the Indian business purchased 470 liners.

The press notes that the air show in Le Bourget intersects with the British one in Farnborough. However, there are no such purchases yet. Some analysts commenting on the sensation believe that everything is caused by the forced break in the “aircraft fairs” due to covid.

President Macron also flew in by helicopter to get acquainted with the situation, look at the exhibits, demonstration flights. After all, flying exhibits from among the latest developments were brought by Airbus — A321XLR, and the French put up the Rafale fighter.

Civil aviation, the press writes, seeks to saturate the aviation market, undermined by the pandemic. Innovations are technologically aimed at achieving zero emissions. However, today's trouble of the industry is the lack of spare parts. Aircraft factories have lost a skilled workforce during the covid.

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