Airbus has secured an order for seven A350-1000s from an undisclosed customer, the airframer’s latest backlog data reveals.
The agreement was formally listed on 22 August and brought Airbus’s gross orders for this year to a round figure of 600.
Airbus’s largest A350 variant has secured 69 orders this year, and the latest deal takes overall firm A350-1000 commitments to 361 – one in four of all passenger A350 orders.
August is normally a quiet month for the manufacturer.
It recorded lessor Avolon’s agreement – revealed in July – for 90 aircraft, including 15 A330-900s, as well as two private customer orders, each for a single A320neo.
There were no cancellations which meant Airbus net orders for the first eight months of the year reached 504.
Airbus is still catching up on deliveries, listing a total of 434 aircraft handed over in 2025 compared with the 447 reached at the same point last year.
