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1976
1976 - 0073.PDF
FLIGHT International, 17 January 1976 99 the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50. The airline will receive its sixth Ilyushin 11-62 in June, together with its sixth and seventh Tupolev Tu-134As • Tupolev Tu-154B is the designation of the latest variant of the Soviet trijet. One Tu-154B has been delivered to Malev, replacing the aircraft lost at Beirut in September • VFW-Fokker has finally confirmed that the French buyer of eight VFW 614s is Touraine Air Transport, an open secret for over a year. TAT's aircraft will seat 48 passengers and be fitted for Icao Category 2 landings. When the first two aircraft are delivered early this year TAT will become the first airline to operate all three VFW-Fokker airliners. New sales slump 41 per cent FULL extent of the slump in commercial aircraft sales during 1975 is shown by the table on this page. In a very lean year 230 airliners were ordered, while eight orders were cancelled and at least two leases were discontinued. This represents a slump of almost 41 per cent compared with 1974 sales. TriStar sales announced fell to zero; DC-10 sales were confined to the long-range variant and any or all of four 707 sales may have been military or corporate aircraft. A300 achieved a monopoly of the short/medium-haul, wide-body market, such as it was, and improved sharply on 1974 sales. Orders for the mass-market 727, 737 and DC-9 were hard hit, the Boeing twin holding its position best. Market shares rose and fell. The average 41 per cent drop in orders did not apply to all; although the 727 remains the best seller In terms of numbers, achieved orders were 49 per cent down on 1974. The DC-9 seems to have done fractionally better, with a 48 per cent drop, but the 737 has held very well (only 30 per cent down) to move into second place for total sales. Success story of the year is de Havilland Canada's sale of 26 Dash 7s. Although orders seemed to slow down in the second half of 1975, the aircraft has established a firm customer base before certification, in the very conservative locail-service market. VFW-Fokker by contrast has found it hard to move the VFW 614, although the company increased sales of the proven F.27 by half. It is not easy to disentangle airline sales of the latter and the F.28 from military, paramilitary and Government-agency sales; all sales are included in the table, improving apparent market performance. The Boeing 747 did slightly better than average, sales of the full-length aircraft dropping by 38 per cent. The absence of TriStar sales is perhaps a result of some orders having been firmed up in a hurry during 1974; the market is not healthy, however, with at least seven and possibly more TriStars still available second-hand. (These aircraft have been on the market for 12-18 months.) Main problem area is the American continent, where the market has fallen by 56 per cent (see regional table); the smaller but once promising Far Eastern/Japanese market has plummeted by 74 per cent in a poorly regulated environment, with travel-agent commissions hitting world- record levels. The European market has held up fairly well, but it may be that European carriers have been slower to r^act to market conditions than US airlines. European manufacturers supplied 25 out of 53 aircraft ordered by European carriers last year; this 47 per cent share is a marked improvement on the 34 per cent attained in 1974. REGION BY REGION Airliners bought 1974 1975 Americas 141 61 Europe 63 53 Middle East and Southern Mediterranean 47 32 Central and Southern Africa 15 26 India and Pakistan — 7 Australasia and Pacific 30 12 Far East and Japan 46 12 TOTAL 342* 203* % change -56 -15-8 -31-9 +42 n.a. -60 -74 -41 'Excludes some undisclosed and Government orders © [FdDiM Scoreboard '75 1974 1975 Customers Aerospatiale 262 Airbus A300 BAC One-Eleven Boeing 707 Boeing 727 Boeing 737 Boeing 747 Boeing 747SP OHC Dash 7 Fokker-VFW F.276 Fokker-VFW F.28' HS. 748 Lockheed L-100 Lockheed TriStar MDC DC-9 MDC DC-10-30 Short SD3-30 VFW 614 2 9 9 14 97 47 26 3 4 15 22 11 8 19 42 20 11 10 2 15 5 4 49 33 16 3 26 23 17 1 2 22 5 -6 1 Total Allegheny AL 2 Air France 3, Air Inter 3, Germanair 1, Indian AL 3, South African AW 4, Trans European AW (Holland) 1, undisclosed European charter operator 1. Air Siam returned one aircraft from lease. Tarom 5 Aviation Service and Support Corporation 2, undisclosed 2 Air Algerie 1, Air Canada 3, Air Jamaica 2, Alitalia 7i, Braniff Int 10, Delta AL 4, Dominicana 1*, Hughes Air- West 3, Iraqi AW 3, JAT1, LAB-Bolivia1, Libyan Arab AL2, Northwest AL 8, Tunis Air 3, Turk Hava Yollari 1 Air Algerie 2, Braathens SAFE 2, Egyptair8, Indian AL2, Iraqi AW1, Kuwait AW 1, NordaiH, Pacific Western AL 2, Royal Air Maroc 3, Royal Brunei AL 2, Southwest AL 1, TAAG 23, Trans European AW 1, VASP 4, Zambia AW 1 Aerolineas Argentinasl, Air France 2, Air-India 1, British AW 54, El Al 1, Iran Air 2, Iraqi AW 2, Lufthansa2, Singapore ALL Seaboard World AW cancelled one order South African AW 3 Air Alpes 4, Eastern Provincial AW 3, Ethiopian AL 5, Greenlandair 2, Nordair 8s, Quebecair 2, Wideroe 2 Air Rouergue 1, Ansett AL 2, Aramco 2, East-West AL 2, Iceland 1, Indonesia 8, Iranian copper minesl, New Zealand National AW Corporation 2, Somalia 2 Air Gabon 2, Garudal, Ivory Coast 2, Linjefiyg5, Nigeria AW 5, Peru 1, Togo 1 Guyana AW 1 Alaska Int AW 2 Aviaco 4, Hawaiian AL 4, LAV Aeropostal 6, North Central AL 6, SAS 2 Air New Zealand 1, Lufthansa 1, Martinair 1, Pakistan Int AL 1, Philippine AL 1, Thai Int 2. China AL can celled two orders Air New England cancelled six orders Undisclosed 369 218 All figures net firm sales, with no options. Cancellations are subtracted. NB 1 Alitalia 727s on lease from manufacturer; 2 Dominicana returned one leased aircraft to Boeing and this is subtracted from the total; 3 Delivery of these aircraft is currertly embargoed by the US State Department; 4 This figure in cludes four 747-236B with RB.211-524S and one 747-136 with JT9Ds; 5 Order conditional on route awards; 6 Include some Government customers and special uses. AL Airlines, AW Airways, Int International.
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