AIRWAYS INDUSTRY The 2023 Paris Air Show
But , at a glance , Boeing lost a valuable foothold in the 100-150 seat aircraft market , and Embraer lost time and resources and , for now , remains an independent company exposed to vulnerabilities .
Since that last Paris Air Show in 2019 , production has stopped on the world ’ s two largest commercial aircraft . A few months before the 2019 iteration in Le Bourget , Airbus announced the end of its A380 program , the last one being delivered to Emirates ( EK ) in 2021 . And , on the other side of the pond ,
Boeing handed over its final 747-8F to Atlas Air ( 5Y ) last February , ending more than five decades of production .
Russia ’ s invasion of its neighbor Ukraine in February 2022 led to the isolation of its commerce aerospace sector , which had hoped to compete with those of the USA and Europe . China , on the other hand , has slowly emerged in the global market with the COMAC C919 and the proposed C919 wide-body .
1 The Airbus A321neo led the sales in the show with 470 firm orders from Air India , IndiGo , and Volaris . // ROBERTO LEIRO
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