Saudia Group, represented by Saudi, the airíflag of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and flyadeal, the airígroup's low-cost line, signed a firm order 105 additional family aircraft A320neo from Airbus.
The order consists of 12 planes A320neo and 93 A321neo, increasing Saudia Group's Airbus aircraft order book to 144 A320neo family aircraft. The agreement was announcedó at the Future Aviation Forum in Riad, in the presence of H.E.. Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, Minister of Transport and Log Servicesístics of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, S.E. Ing. Ibrahim Al-Omar, CEO of Saudia Group and Benoît of Saint-Exupéry, Executive Vice President of Sales, Airbus Commercial Aircraft.
Saudia Group orders más A320neo
It is Saudi Arabiaá creating unprecedented opportunities for aviationóworld wideés of the National Tourism Strategy Saudi Arabia, that aims to attract meás de 150 millions of tourists to 2030. This request to Airbus performanceñará an important role in strengthening the ambitionón of the Kingdom to become one of the main tourist destinationsíworld aesthetics.
“Saudia has ambitious operational goals to meet growing demand”, I sayó S.E. Ing. Ibrahim Al-Omar, CEO of Saudia Group. “We are increasing flights and seating capacity on our más de 100 Existing destinations on four continents, with plans for further expansionón. The progress of visionón 2030 of Saudi Arabia attracts everyño a más visitors, tourists, businessmen and pilgrims. This is the reasonó our decisionón to secure this important agreement, what to createá jobs, increaseá local content and contributeá to the economyíto national”.
The family A320 it's the avióhallway number único más popular in the world, con más de 18.000 m requestsás de 300 customers in all markets. The A321neo is the member más big family A320neo from Airbus, and offers unmatched range and performance. By incorporating new generation enginesón y Sharklets, the A321neo offers a reductionón of the noise of the 50% and fuel and CO2 savings of at least one 20% in comparisonón with aisle planes único de la generationón anterior, while maximizing passenger comfort in the aisle cabin único máwide of the sky. Like all airplanes Airbus, the whole family A320 can now work with up to 50% from aviation fuelón sustainable (PURE). Airbus aims for all its aircraft to be capable of operating with up to a 100% from PURE for 2030.
