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UPDATED 23 JUL · DAYS 1–4
$84.7B in deals through day 3 · 342 firm aircraft + 57 options · mainline score: Boeing 168 vs Airbus 159, Embraer 30 · day 3 was all-Airbus (35), day 4 quiet · final wrap Friday
$84.7B
Show deals days 1–3 ($48.8 + $22.1 + $5.2B) · ~900 firm engines
173 : 154
Boeing vs Airbus mainline firm orders (Reuters, day 3) · Embraer 30
43,625
Boeing CMO 2026: 20-yr deliveries · fleet >50,000 by 2045
42,060
Airbus GMF 2026: 20-yr deliveries · 81% single-aisle · 47% replacement
>1,000
LEAP engines — IndiGo/CFM MoU (largest ever) · BOC took 520 engines
728,000
New technicians needed 20 yrs (Boeing) — 125k in N. America
| Customer | Deal | Status |
|---|
| SMBC Aviation Capital | 100 Boeing MAX (40 -8 / 60 -10) + 100 Airbus neo (35 A320 / 65 A321) | Firm |
| Riyadh Air | 28 × 787 (8 -9 / 20 -10) + 6 × A350-1000 | Firm |
| flynas DAY 3 | 20 × A321neo (rights firmed, neo book to 215) + 5 × A330-900 (A330neo to 20) | Firm |
| British Airways | 33 A320neo + 30 opts — P&W GTF, 12-yr EngineWise | Firm |
| Philippine Airlines | 15 × 787-10 (+5 rights) firm; 9 × A350-1000 + Trent XWB-97 TotalCare | Firm / MoU |
| AerCap | 15 × 787-9 (787-10 substitution rights, deliveries to 2033) — portfolio ~140 | Firm |
| BermudAir DAY 3 | 10 × A220-300 + 10 options — first-ever direct Airbus order | Firm |
| Abra Group (Avianca/GOL) | Up to 45 E195-E2 (20 firm + 10 opts + 15 rights, 4Q27) + 100 LEAP-1A + CFM services avianca & GOL | Firm |
| BOC Aviation | 520 engines total: ~300 CFM LEAP + up to 220 P&W GTF — lessor spare-engine wave | Firm |
| IndiGo — CFM | >1,000 LEAP-1A for 510 A320neo-family + India MRO facility — largest LEAP deal ever | MoU |
| MSC Air Cargo | 5 × 777-8F (type backlog >80) | Firm |
| Vietnam Airlines + leases | 19 leased 737-8 (SMBC 10, Avolon 4, Phoenix/AIP 5) · Turkish +7 A321neo (CALC) · Air Seychelles 2 A321XLR | Lease |
| Uganda Airlines | 4 × 737-8 + 4 × 787-9 — first direct Boeing purchase | Firm |
| Azorra — Embraer | Up to 30 E190F P2F conversions (20 firm + 10 rights) | Firm |
New 20-year forecasts in one line: Boeing 43,625 deliveries / fleet >50,000 by 2045 / $4.9T services / 2.4M new personnel · Airbus 42,060 deliveries (81% single-aisle, 47% replacement) / fleet 45,550 · Embraer 8,500 sub-150-seat jets ($650B) — N. America 2,670, LatAm 740. H1'26 actuals: Airbus 351 vs Boeing 314 deliveries; backlogs 24,887 vs 20,744. MRO signals: GE >$1B + Safran >€1B CFM capacity; LEAP-1B durability kit certified (2× time-on-wing, early-27 cutover); Embraer–SkyWest heavy-mx extension on 271 E175s; StandardAero LEAP deals (Avolon, Arajet); GKN GTF component MRO (20+ types); Unison–LHT 15-yr LEAP; HAECO 9th engine bay; Duncan $89M PWC shop; AerCap/AFI-KLM LEAP leasing JV.
Show wrap: IBA verdict: “a steady rather than spectacular week” · net-new ~229 edged FIA2024 and reversed Paris 2025 (Airbus-led) · day 3 = $5.2B, all 35 orders Airbus; rumored Turkish/EVA/American widebody orders did NOT land · Emirates says it will refuse its first ten 777-9s (early-build frames "unusable"; EIS 2027 via Lufthansa) · Boeing pitched production over orders — studying 737 rate hikes beyond 42/mo, MAX 7 cert final steps · Airbus: €5B buyback, A350/A220 stretch studies, Wing of Tomorrow A321neo flight tests · Americas watch: Hawaiian 717→737-800 from 2028 · Alaska BCF freighters 5→9 · GOL scrapped two near-new MAX 8s · Volaris Q2 −$127M · AAR FY26 $3.3B (+19%).
Sources: ADS daily tallies, Reuters factbox, FlightGlobal tracker, AirInsight, Aviation Week SpeedNews, aviator.aero Daily News, Simple Flying, AeroTime, Asian Aviation, AviTrader, AIN, GE/Safran/P&W/RR newsrooms, Boeing CMO 2026, Airbus GMF 2026. FINAL EDITION — show closed 24 Jul 2026 (ADS final tally 23 Jul 17:00).