Mark Nensel is the Managing Editor of Aviation Daily. Prior to taking the helm of daily production of Aviation Week's commercial aviation newsletter in 2018, Mark was a reporter and data analyst for Air Transport World.
Airbus logged just one new commercial passenger aircraft order in October—two A320ceos (current engine option) for Singapore-based BOC Aviation, placed on Oct. 31—which effectively placed BOC among Airbus’s top ten customers. With no additional cancellations or conversions announced for October, Airbus’s net orders for 2014 have now reached 794 aircraft.
The overall on-time arrival performance for US domestic scheduled flights in September was 81.1%, improving on August by 3.4 points, but falling below last September 2013’s on-time performance by 2.7 points, according to the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Air Travel Consumer Report and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
With Monarch Airlines’ late-October booking for 30 Boeing 737 MAX 8s, Boeing added to its lead over rival manufacturer Airbus in the year-to-date commercial aircraft order race; as of Oct. 31, Boeing has 1,127 gross orders on its books, compared to Airbus’ 1,070.
