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Bloomberg
Two months into 2019, Airbus SE has logged cancellations for 103 jetliners and garnered a grand total of four new sales — and those orders were for the A220 plane manufactured in Canada by Bomb- ardier Inc. The deal for the A220s — formerly the Bombardier C Series — with Pacific Ocean carrier Air Vanuatu represented Airbus’s only new business in February and broke an order drought in January.
February also featured 23 cancellations for the A380 superjumbo after Airbus said the flagship program would be wound up early: 20 at leasing firm Amedeo and three originally ordered by Russia’s now defunct Transaero and later assigned to Air Accord. Those losses follow the scrapping in January of eight A380 orders at Australia’s Qantas Airways and five A220s contracted to a private buyer.