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Airbus’ new Airspace interiors. The new aircraft will be able to the Spanish Ministry of Interior following the
up to 8,700 km, allowing IndiGo to operate from Delhi to London major order just ten months prior. The H160
nonstop. Its longer range means it can also be used to open up entered into service in Japan with All Nippon
new city pairs for Indigo. Apart from IndiGo, the A321XLR has Helicopter and the French Navy took delivery
been ordered by major carriers such as American Airlines, United of the first H160 for SAR operations.
Airlines, International Airlines Group (IAG), Air Asia X, Qantas, etc.
The company is continuing to move ahead
According to Qantas, the A321 XLR can carry around 15 per with its decarbonisation roadmap which is
cent more passengers on each flight than the airline’s existing based on a threefold approach using SAF,
B737-800s. “We have some exciting plans for the next-generation hybridisation, and electrification. “The unveil-
cabins we’ll put on these aircraft, which will offer improvements ing of our DisruptiveLab demonstrator at the
for passengers that we’ll share in coming months,” Qantas Group Airbus Summit is another significant step to
CEO Alan Joyce had said in December 2021, adding, “ these air- decarbonising vertical lift. The aircraft that
craft will deliver a step change in reducing fuel burn and carbon took flight on 13 January will demonstrate
emissions compared with our current fleet, which gets us closer our capability to reduce CO2 emissions by 50
to the net zero target we’ve set.” per cent. Our commitment to sustainability
also saw us forge more partnerships that will
support the optimal entry into service of the
Collective Growth CityAirbus NextGen, our eVTOL prototype,”
Airbus Helicopters logged 262 net orders in 2022, with 216 light Even stated.
single engine helicopters sold. The company received orders
from 203 customers in 48 countries and deliveries increased to Airbus is in an enviable position of leader-
344 in 2022 from 338 in 2021, leaving Airbus Helicopters with an ship in its commercial aviation and helicopter
approximately 52 per cent market share of the civil and parapub- businesses and strong investments in sustain-
lic market. The company also announced that fleet flight hours ability for future aviation platforms that will
were now back to pre-COVID 2019 levels. Bruno Even, Airbus emerge by the end of this decade. With the
Helicopters CEO said the company solidified its recovery in 2022. recovery in commercial air travel and Boeing’s
decision not to bring in a new aircraft until
Airbus Helicopters made important first deliveries last year, such 2035, Airbus could dominate the global avia-
as the delivery of the first ACH160 to a Brazilian customer in tion market till the end of this decade, if not
July 2022. In October, the Company delivered the first H135s to beyond.

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