The contract, worth 17 billion euros (18.57 billion dollars) was announced immediately after German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with China’s Premier Li Keqiang.
Airbus is in direct competition with the US group Boeing for dominance in the Chinese market.Boeing Co. It estimated that in the next two decades will reach a turnover of 1.000 billion dollars in the Chinese market.
Are stacked seats the new plan to pack in airline passengers?European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Group recently applied for a patent on an aircraft seating arrangement that would add a row of passengers on top of passengers seated on the floor of the cabin. The patent suggests “an …Air China Ltd and other airlines expand their fleets Chinese planes, given that the number of passengers in the Chinese market is expected to triple in the next 20 years.
To secure orders from China, the European Airbus agreed in July to build an assembly center worth 150 million euros in the Chinese province of Tianjin.
In turn, Boeing signed a cooperation agreement in September with the group Comac (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China) to build an assembly center in China.