(Beijing News) Xiamen Airlines signed an agreement with Airbus on Thursday (September 22) to purchase 40 A320NEO series aircraft.Since then, Xiamen Airlines will bid farewell to the United States Bobo Pacific.
According to the Beijing News, the Airbus aircraft ordered by Xiamen Airlines is planned to be delivered in batches from 2024 to 2027.The public market quotation shows that the basic price of 40 A320NEO series aircraft is approximately US $ 4.848 billion (about S $ 6.9 billion).
Xiamen Airlines is the holding subsidiary of China Southern Airlines, and has always been a fan of Boeing passenger planes.As of the first half of 2022, Xiamen Airlines had a total of 208 Boeing aircraft, including the Boeing 737 series, 787 series, 757 series, and 10 737MAX aircraft that have not yet been flying.
Except for a single layout, the size of Xiamen Airlines has not increased significantly in recent years.Under the repeated impact of the epidemic in the civil aviation industry, problems such as the structure and capacity of the Xiamen Airlines fleet have also increased operating challenges.In the first half of this year, Xiamen Airlines's operating income was 8.801 billion yuan (RMB, the same below, S $ 1.761 billion), a year -on -year decrease of 22.78%; net loss was 1.653 billion yuan, and the net loss was 46 million yuan in the same period last year.
In this context, in addition to the current market timing, Xia Xia's big strokes are conducive to getting better purchase conditions. This transaction is also helping to enhance its market competitiveness.
