Cebu Pacific Orders 31 Airbus Planes at Paris Air Show
18 June 2019 - 7:26PM
Dow Jones News
By Robert Wall
LE BOURGET, France--Philippine budget carrier Cebu Pacific
ordered 31 Airbus SE (AIR.FR) planes at the Paris Air Show on
Tuesday.
Cebu ordered 16 of Airbus's A330-900 long-range planes, 10 of
the new A321XLR model and five A320neo narrowbody planes.
The A330-900s will be fit with 460 seats, the airline's chief
financial officer, Andrew Huang, told reporters. The first of the
plane should be delivered in 2021, he said.
Cebu Pacific will get its first A321XLR in 2024. Airbus launched
the plane on Monday and said it would first enter service 2023. The
airline would aim to seat 240 passengers on the plane, the maximum
possible.
Write to Robert Wall at robert.wall@wsj.com
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