Grupo Marsans order 73 Airbuses, including 4 A380s!

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Grupo Marsans order 73 Airbuses, including 4 A380s!

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As the title says: Grupo Marsans (owner of both Air Comet and Aerolineas Argentinas) has signed an MoU for 73 Airbuses, including 4 A380s. Apparently (and contrary to what the article says) the others include A32X, A330 and A350!
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyN ... 1020071011

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Wow another Airbus MEGA order.

2007 is to become the all-time record in number of orders and deliveries...
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Post by teach »

The order apparently is for 61 aircraft, not 73. The 73 number includes 12 A330-200s ordered in December 2006. The Airbus release mentions 61 new orders, being:

-12 A319s
-25 A320s
-5 A321s
-5 A330-200s
-10 A350-900s
-4 A380s

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Post by FLY4HOURS.BE »

Rumours say they will buy A310's too.
That might explain the difference?
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Post by teach »

Rumours say they will buy A310's too.
The A310 has been out of production for nine years, the line is closed. The order doesn't include A310s, that was just an example of the media not knowing much about aviation.

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Post by A350XWB »

Grupo Marsans to order a total of 61 aircraft including four A380s and ten A350 XWBs

Grupo Marsans, the largest tourism and transport group in Spain, has signed today a Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus

4 A380 , 10 A350 , 5 A330-200 , 42 A320 Family aircraft (of which 12 A319s, 25 A320s and five A321s

http://www.airbus.com/en/presscentre/pr ... rsans.html

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Post by RC20 »

Definitely an interesting order in regards to the A380.

I don't think anyone ever indicated there was a market for it with that type of operation. Maybe a new opportunity for it.

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Post by achace »

I think the Marson order for the A380 took all we pundits by surprise.

Would not be surprised to see PAL order, its visit to Manila could have some significance, and they are quite profitable these days.

Their 744 flights to USA are always packed to overflowing, so who knows?

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The A310 has been out of production for nine years, the line is closed. The order doesn't include A310s, that was just an example of the media not knowing much about aviation.
Who said new A310's?
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Post by teach »

Who said new A310's?
Because you don't 'order' second hand planes, you just buy them. Plus, you don't mention them as part of an order for x planes 'from Airbus'.

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Ok sorry teacher, the 12 other aircraft are previously ordered A332's.
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Post by tsv »

Well orders like these certainly suggest that the Airbus wowsers need to eat some humble pie. Ok they have made some big mistakes but they also have some extrordinary products.

To quote Mark Twain, "News of their death is premature!"

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According to a spokesman of Grupo Marsans, 2 of the 4 A380s woud go respectively to Aerolineas Argentinas and Air Comet. Quite an opportunity for these (relatively) small airlines. And also the first A380 in South America, if I am correct.
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sn26567 wrote:According to a spokesman of Grupo Marsans, 2 of the 4 A380s woud go respectively to Aerolineas Argentinas and Air Comet. Quite an opportunity for these (relatively) small airlines. And also the first A380 in South America, if I am correct.

Hopefully it will not end up being a bad mistake like the L-1011's were for PSA back in the late 1970's. Too much airplane for a small company.



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Interesting order and big for Airbus. I wonder how many orders Airbus will end up with, knowing that they are saving order announcements for Dubai.

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