Aircraft
Saudi is A330-300 Regional Launch Customer
Airbus now has a launch customer for its A330-300 Regional model.
Airbus’s A320 series, represented by this Qatar aircraft, received a boost when GE Capital Aviation Services placed an order for $6.4 billion worth of A320neos and A321neos. (Photo: David McIntosh)
Airbus’s A320 series, represented by this Qatar aircraft, received a boost when GE Capital Aviation Services placed an order for $6.4 billion worth of A320neos and A321neos. (Photo: David McIntosh)

Saudi Arabian Airlines has signed up to be the launch customer for Airbus’s A330-300 Regional twinjet. In a deal announced at the Paris Air Show on Monday, the carrier ordered 30 of the new model, plus 30 examples of the A320ceo narrowbody. The new business is worth approximately $8 billion based on list prices, and represented the lion’s share of orders announced so far at Paris by the European airframer, which have a combined value of around $15.2 billion.