Despite plummeting travel demand and Starlux Airlines temporarily suspending operations earlier this year, the airline has just confirmed an order for 8 Airbus A330neos that will be leased from Air Lease Corporation.
At the moment, details and timeframes are unclear, but according to Taiwan’s Apple Daily, Starlux will take delivery of its first A330-900neo in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Additionally, while it hasn’t been confirmed yet, Starlux is set to order three more A321neos and one more A350-900.
By 2024, Starlux expects to take delivery of all aircraft currently on order (including the unconfirmed additions), so their fleet will consist of the following:
Congrats to Airbus and Starlux on this order. Starlux just began flying in January 2020 and they already have ambitious plans with 26 widebody aircraft on order. Hopefully this goes well for them.
For now Delta has a lot of Boeing aircraft, but they have no more Boeing aircraft on order and they’re going be phasing out the 757s/767s within a few years and the 737-700s/777s will be gone this year.
As for Starlux, they’re technically already pure-Airbus, but who knows if they stray for some Boeing aircraft.
Doesn’t their plan seem a bit ambitious? They plan on adding 36 new aircrafts, including wide bodies, in 4 years… Especially during COVID-19, it’ll be interesting to see how the airline continues
If we’re going with the “East Asia” region as China, Taiwan, Mongolia, South Korea, North Korea, and Japan, then Starlux is the first East Asian airline to operate the A330neo.
Yup. It’ll be interesting to see if there’s sufficient demand for three long-haul Taiwanese carriers.
Not at all, the CEO of Starlux is the former CEO of EVA AIR, which helped EVA to gain the 5 star skytrax, ordered 787 & even signed the contract w Sanrio Co. to operate the Hello Kitty flight. He believe he will operate Starlux into a well-known luxury brand just as he managed EVA before.
