Summary of Airbus A350 Deliveries and A350 Orders as of August 2022.
A350-800 | A350-900 | A350-1000 | Totals | |
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Orders | – | 739 | 149 | 888 |
Deliveries | – | 430 | 65 | 495 |
Operational | – | 430 | 65 | 495 |
For each new aircraft model that is brought to production, a launch airline customer must be found. This can be a complex arrangement and relationship as the airline wants to produce an aircraft that is as attractive to the general market as possible. The success of this can be seen in the Airbus A350 Deliveries and A350 Orders below.
The launch airline has extensive input into the finished product while at the same time being able to negotiate a favourable price for their order. The risk, and therefore the reason that the launch carrier can negotiate such a favourable unit price for their order is that there can be delays. New technology and the Airbus A350 XWB are no different, and so far untried new methods can lead to delays when things don’t go to plan. A very obvious example of this was the launch of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner which ran into all sorts of problems and led to extensive delays.
Qatar Airways was the launch customer for both variants of the A350. The first of course was the A350-900 which was delivered on 22 December 2014. This was followed by the A350-1000 which was delivered on 20 February 2018. This A350-1000 was the first to be fitted with the revolutionary new Qsuite seats, a new innovation in Business Class seat that makes up into a double bed.
A detailed list of Airbus A350 Orders and A350 Deliveries as of August 2022.
(ORD = On Order, DEL=Delivered, OP=In Operation)
A350-800 | A350-900 | A350-1000 | ||||||||||
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ORD | DEL | OP | ORD | DEL | OP | ORD | DEL | OP | ||||
Govt. Exec and Private Jets | 5 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
Aercap (leasing) | 20 | 20 | ||||||||||
Aeroflot | 16 | 7 | 4 | |||||||||
Afriqiyah Airways | 10 | |||||||||||
Air Caraibes | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
Air China | 30 | 19 | 19 | |||||||||
Air France | 38 | 18 | 18 | |||||||||
Air Lease Corporation | 18 | 13 | 8 | 6 | ||||||||
Air Mauritius | 4 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
Alafco | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
A350-800 | A350-900 | A350-1000 | ||||||||||
ORD | DEL | OP | ORD | DEL | OP | ORD | DEL | OP | ||||
Asiana Airlines | 21 | 13 | 13 | 9 | ||||||||
Azul | 4 | |||||||||||
BOC Aviation | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
British Airways | 18 | 13 | 13 | |||||||||
Cathay Pacific | 28 | 26 | 28 | 18 | 15 | 15 | ||||||
China Airlines | 14 | 14 | 14 | |||||||||
China Eastern | 20 | 13 | 13 | |||||||||
China Southern | 20 | 13 | 14 | |||||||||
C.I.T. Leasing | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||
DAE Capital | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Delta Airlines | 25 | 17 | 26 | |||||||||
Emirates | 50 | |||||||||||
Ethiopian Airlines | 18 | 16 | 18 | 4 | ||||||||
Etihad Airlines | 20 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||
Evelop Airlines | 2 | |||||||||||
Fiji Airways | 2 | |||||||||||
Finnair | 19 | 17 | 17 | |||||||||
French BEE | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
GROUPE DUBREUIL | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Hainan Airlines | 7 | |||||||||||
Hong Kong Airlines | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||
Iberia | 20 | 12 | 12 | |||||||||
A350-800 | A350-900 | A350-1000 | ||||||||||
ORD | DEL | OP | ORD | DEL | OP | ORD | DEL | OP | ||||
Iran Air | 16 | |||||||||||
ITA Airways | 4 | |||||||||||
Japan Airlines | 18 | 16 | 16 | 13 | ||||||||
Kuwait Airways | 2 | |||||||||||
Latam Airlines Group | 13 | 13 | ||||||||||
Libyan Airlines | 6 | |||||||||||
Lufthansa | 45 | 17 | 21 | |||||||||
Malaysia Airlines | 6 | |||||||||||
Philippine Airlines | 6 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||
QANTAS Airways | 12 | |||||||||||
Qatar Airways | 34 | 34 | 34 | 19 | 19 | 19 | ||||||
Scandinavian Airlines | 8 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||
Sichuan Airlines | 10 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
Singapore Airlines | 65 | 61 | 61 | |||||||||
Sri Lankan Airlines | 4 | |||||||||||
Starlux | 17 | |||||||||||
Thai International | 4 | 4 | 12 | |||||||||
Turkish Airlines | 26 | 11 | 11 | |||||||||
United Airlines | 45 | |||||||||||
Vietnam Airlines (Aercap) | 10 | 10 | 14 | |||||||||
Virgin Atlantic | 8 | 5 | 9 | |||||||||
World2fly | 2 | |||||||||||
Yemenia Yemen Airways | 10 | |||||||||||
Undisclosed | 13 | 9 | ||||||||||
Totals | 739 | 430 | 430 | 149 | 65 | 65 | ||||||
ORD | DEL | OP | ORD | DEL | OP | ORD | DEL | OP | ||||
A350-800 | A350-900 | A350-1000 |
Month/Year | Order/Deliver Activity |
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November / 21 |
Variations with last month. Orders Airbus A350-900 748 reduced by 1 to 747 Airbus A350-1000 165 increased by 1 to 166 Deliveries Airbus A350-900 deliveries increased from 387 to 389. Airbus A350-1000 deliveries static since last month at 56. In fleet Airbus A350-900 2 more joined airline fleets from 387 to 389. Airbus A350-1000 no more joined airline fleets this month, steady at 56. Movers Government and Private Jets moved from 3 in fleet to 5. Air Mauritius changed from 2 in fleet to 4. Their full order. Asiana’s A350-1000 order increased from 8 to 9. China Eastern added another A350-900 to in fleet from 10 to 11. Delta now have one more A350-900 in fleet from 23 to 24. Japan Airlines also added another A350-900 to in fleet from 12 to 13. Undisclosed A350-900 operational in fleet dropped from 10 to 7. |
In short, it is a calculated risk. With a good outcome, however, there is prestige and exposure to be gained. See below for details of the first deliveries for each variant.
If there is more you want to learn about this airliner, please visit A350 XWB Home, A350 XWB Interior, A350 XWB Assembly, A350 XWB Order Book and A350 XWB History.
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From the photos it appears to be significantly bigger than the A330.
As with many airliners, there are usually different variant options available. This makes the model more attractive to airlines who have different requirements. Some want smaller variants so they can run more frequent services using smaller aircraft, others need to move more people at a single time, so they opt for a larger variant. What I’m getting at is it depends which variants you are comparing.
Check and compare the two by looking at our specs page for each.
https://modernairliners.com/airbus-a350-xwb-introduction/airbus-a350-xwb-specifications/
https://modernairliners.com/airbus-a330/airbus-a330-specs/
Cheers Peter
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