Taiwan’s Starlux Airlines signed an order on Wednesday at the Singapore Airshow covering three A330neo airliners and five A350F freighters, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 and XWB97 engines, respectively. The A330 order builds on the four aircraft already in service, one of which is on show in the static display. Airbus will deliver the new aircraft in 2025/26. The machines will come configured with 28 business class sets and 269 in the economy cabins.
Starlux operates an all-Airbus fleet and sees the A330neo as ideal for its intra-Asia services and to feed passengers into its growing North American passenger services, which started from Taipei to Los Angeles last year and later added San Francisco. Chairman Chang Kuo-Wei said that the airline would add Seattle as a destination this year. A330s operate on the transpacific routes. Chang added that the airline planned to bolster its narrowbody fleet in the near future with further A321neos.
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