Airbus, which added Vietnam’s VietJet to its list of customers, has a backlog of more than a decade at current build rates.

The second day of Paris Air Show 2025 is well underway with defense giants dominating the early headlines, but Airbus later swept in with a huge Vietjet order.

At Embraer, Shibata finalized a deal for 15 firm E190-E2s plus five options. The order, which had been previously announced, will mark the first E2s to be operated in Japan. The aircraft are scheduled to begin deliveries from 2028.

Airbus was closing in on an order for 100 single-aisle aircraft from VietJet on Tuesday, with an announcement pencilled in for the Paris Airshow barring a last-minute setback in negotiations, industry sources said.

Airbus has secured a new multi-billion pound jet deal. Vietjet, Vietnam’s largest private airline, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus covering a major new order for 100 single-aisle A321neo aircraft, with the potential to add another 50 in the future.

Airbus SE said the governments of France and Spain agreed to fast-track some deliveries of the slow-selling A400M military transport aircraft as the main nations supporting the program seek to keep production going.

Airbus is encouraged by preliminary data analysis of CFM's RISE engine but the airframer's propulsion engineering chief insists that the open-rotor technology has still to cement its case for selection against geared-fan alternatives.

The bid to sell the H145 light utility helicopter comes more than eight years after Poland scrapped a purchase of Airbus H225M tactical-transport helos.

Airbus SE won an order for as many as 50 widebody jets from Saudi Arabia’s new carrier, as the kingdom pours billions of dollars into turning the country into an aviation and tourism hub.

AviLease CEO Edward O’Byrne (far left), Airbus CEO commercial aircraft Christian Scherer (center-right) and Airbus EVP commercial sales Benoît de Saint-Exupéry (far right) at the signing of a deal for up to 77 Airbus narrowbodies and widebody freighters.