An order for 60 Airbus A320 planes from state-backed China Eastern
Airlines is seen as a positive response to the European Union’s recent
decision to suspend a plan to impose jetliner-emission levies.
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Airbus has won an order for 60 A320 planes from state-backed
China Eastern Airlines less than two weeks after the European Union
backed down in a dispute with the government in Beijing over
jetliner-emission levies.
China Eastern received a “substantive” discount to the list price of $5.4 billion for the single-aisle planes, it said Friday in a statement from Shanghai, adding that Airbus also agreed to take 18 regional jets off its hands.
EU plans to impose carbon-dioxide emission fees on flights in and out of the bloc were suspended on Nov. 12 after countries including China, India and Russia threatened retaliatory steps. European Aeronautic, Defence & Space (EADS), the parent of Toulouse, France-based Airbus, had said the levies might cause China to refuse to take its planes.
“I suspect there’s a message there,” said Sandy Morris, an analyst at Jefferies International in London with a “buy” rating on EADS. “China has been light on A320 orders for a while now, and it looks like Airbus held some production slots back until this was resolved. It’s called: Looking after your customer.”
The A320s, due to arrive from 2014 to 2017, will be used mainly on domestic routes, according to China Eastern, which last year switched an order for 24 Boeing 787s wide-body planes to 45 smaller 737s because of waning long-haul demand.
The airline will sell eight Bombardier CRJ planes and 10 Embraer regional jets with a book value of $241 million to Airbus, it said in the statement.
China was pleased with the EU move to suspend the plan for emissions charges, Xia Xinghua, deputy director of its aviation regulator, said Nov. 13. The Asian country’s airline association said in June that carriers would snub a deadline for filing emissions data and that the government would support them.
Three calls to China Eastern’s offices went unanswered Friday outside regular office hours.
Airbus Chief Executive Officer Fabrice Bregier said in September that China was withholding signature on 35 to 45 widebody A330 planes because of the emissions dispute. A contract for those aircraft would have given a “bigger signal” regarding current Chinese attitudes, Jefferies’ Morris said.
Airbus, which has an A320 assembly plant in China, won an order for 50 of the planes from the leasing arm of state-controlled Industrial & Commercial Bank of China in August.
China and other nations had said the EU should wait for a global emissions program being drawn up by the United Nations’ aviation agency, rather than push ahead with a regional plan.
The levies are designed to curb C02 output associated with global warming.
China Eastern received a “substantive” discount to the list price of $5.4 billion for the single-aisle planes, it said Friday in a statement from Shanghai, adding that Airbus also agreed to take 18 regional jets off its hands.
EU plans to impose carbon-dioxide emission fees on flights in and out of the bloc were suspended on Nov. 12 after countries including China, India and Russia threatened retaliatory steps. European Aeronautic, Defence & Space (EADS), the parent of Toulouse, France-based Airbus, had said the levies might cause China to refuse to take its planes.
“I suspect there’s a message there,” said Sandy Morris, an analyst at Jefferies International in London with a “buy” rating on EADS. “China has been light on A320 orders for a while now, and it looks like Airbus held some production slots back until this was resolved. It’s called: Looking after your customer.”
The A320s, due to arrive from 2014 to 2017, will be used mainly on domestic routes, according to China Eastern, which last year switched an order for 24 Boeing 787s wide-body planes to 45 smaller 737s because of waning long-haul demand.
The airline will sell eight Bombardier CRJ planes and 10 Embraer regional jets with a book value of $241 million to Airbus, it said in the statement.
China was pleased with the EU move to suspend the plan for emissions charges, Xia Xinghua, deputy director of its aviation regulator, said Nov. 13. The Asian country’s airline association said in June that carriers would snub a deadline for filing emissions data and that the government would support them.
Three calls to China Eastern’s offices went unanswered Friday outside regular office hours.
Airbus Chief Executive Officer Fabrice Bregier said in September that China was withholding signature on 35 to 45 widebody A330 planes because of the emissions dispute. A contract for those aircraft would have given a “bigger signal” regarding current Chinese attitudes, Jefferies’ Morris said.
Airbus, which has an A320 assembly plant in China, won an order for 50 of the planes from the leasing arm of state-controlled Industrial & Commercial Bank of China in August.
China and other nations had said the EU should wait for a global emissions program being drawn up by the United Nations’ aviation agency, rather than push ahead with a regional plan.
The levies are designed to curb C02 output associated with global warming.
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