The first delivery of the A350 to Qatar Airways was delivered one year ago on 22/December/2014 in a ceremony held at Toulouse.
In one year, deliveries have been nearly as planned; 13 aircraft delivered to 4 operators in 4 continents.
Source: Jujug Spotting
After Qatar Airways, the 2nd A350 operator who received an aircraft was Vietnam Airlines (AERCAP) on June. The 3rdoperator was Finnair in October and in December, some days ago, Brazilian TAM has been the 4th operator.
Source: Airbus
Regarding deliveries, in Q1/2015 there was 1 A350 delivered to Qatar. In Q2/2015 there were delivered 3 aircraft as planned, to Qatar (2 in May and June) and to Vietnam Airlines (June).
The main issues appeared in the Q3/2015 deliveries as only 1 aircraft was delivered (to Vietnam Airlines-CIT in September). No deliveries in July and in August.
Source: Jujug Spotting
In the last 3 months of the year the situation improved with 4 deliveries in October (Finnair, Vietnam Airlines-AERCAP and 2 for Qatar Airways), 1 A350 delivered in November to Qatar and 3 deliveries in December to Vietnam Airlines, Finnair and TAM.
Deliveries
Q1/2015: 1 delivery
Q2/2015: 3 deliveries
Q3/2015: 1 deliveries
Q4/2015: 8 deliveries
13 deliveries to 4 customers in 4 continents.
Concerning orders, 2 cancellations have been confirmed; -7 aircraft by Singapore in July (officially “after a request by Airbus”) and -12 aircraft by Portuguese TAP in November (substituted by A330-900neo).
There have been 14 new orders in 2015 for A350-900: +1 by ALS in June, +8 by Iberia in August, +1 by Air Caraibes in September and +4 by Singapore in October.
Orders:
Q1/2015: 0 orders
Q2/2015: +1 order
Q3/2015: +9 orders -7 cancellations
Q4/2015: +4 orders -12 cancellations
+14 orders -19 cancellations = -5 (780à775)
No new Orders nor cancellations in the A350-800 (16 orders from Aeroflot + Asiana) or in the A350-1000 (175 orders) in the complete year.
As of today, Airbus has recorded a total of 775 firm orders from 41 customers worldwide.
