Farnborough International Air show,  nets £39.3 billion ( $51 billion) in deals as the European plane maker Airbus announced orders for 69 & VietJet ordered 20 Airbus A330neo aircraft,  and Boeing 118 including an order for 20 777X Boeing aircraft ( revolutionary twin-aisle plane with the folding wings) from Qatar Airways and Korean Air signed  for 40 wide-body jetliners. Crisis-hit Boeing ,  Airbus shows off new ultra long-haul jet. Airbus performed a public display of its soon-to-launch A321XLR for the first time since it was certified.

China’s Comac seen as a potential competitor to  Airbus and Boeing in the future had a large but low-key display with small models of its C919 wide-body and ARJ21 regional jets.