Airbus Updates No.4634

 Airbus March 2026 orders & deliveries

March 2026 was a very good month for Airbus as the manufacturer received 331 orders. The number of deliveries was 60 aircraft. As usual, the details can be found below.

Ordered were:

• 20 A350Fs by Atlas Air
• 18 A320neos by China Eastern Airlines
• 83 A321neos by China Eastern Airlines
• 34 A321neos by Delta Air Lines
• 16 A330-900s by Delta Air Lines
• 15 A350-900s by Delta Air Lines
• 13 A320neos by Juneyao Air
• 12 A321neos by Juneyao Air
• 23 A320neos by NAS Aviation Services
• 77 A321neos by NAS Aviation Services
• 20 A220-300s by Undisclosed customers

Of note is that the order for NAS Aviation Services is the one announced earlier in March 2026 by AerCap and that we reported on.

Delivered were:

• 2 A321neos to Aegean Airlines
• 1 A330-900 to Air Algerie
• 1 A321neo to Air Astana
• 1 A220-300 to airBaltic
• 1 A220-300 to Air France
• 1 A220-300 to Animawings
• 1 A320neo to Brussels Airlines
• 1 A320neo to Cebu Pacific
• 1 A320neo to China Southern Airlines
• 1 A321neo to China Southern Airlines
• 1 A320neo to Condor
• 1 A321neo to Condor
• 1 A220-300 to Croatia Airlines
• 1 A220-300 to Delta Air Lines
• 2 A321neos to Delta Air Lines
• 1 A321neo to easyJet
• 1 A350-900 to Egyptair
• 3 A350-900s to Emirates
• 1 A321neo to Etihad Airways
• 1 A350-1000 to Etihad Airways
• 2 A320neos to Frontier Airlines
• 1 A321neo to Frontier Airlines
• 3 A320neos to Hainan Airlines
• 2 A321neos to Icelandair
• 1 A320neo to IndiGo
• 1 A321neo to IndiGo
• 1 A220-300 to ITA Airways
• 1 A330-900 to ITA Airways
• 1 A350-900 to Japan Airlines
• 1 A220-300 to JetBlue Airways
• 2 A321neos to KLM
• 1 A350-900 to Korean Air
• 1 A321neo to LATAM Airlines
• 1 A320neo to Loong Air
• 1 A321neo to Lufthansa
• 1 A330-900 to Malaysia Airlines
• 1 A320neo to Peach
• 1 A321neo to Pegasus Airlines
• 1 ACJ320neo to Private customer
• 2 A320neos to SAS
• 1 A320neo to Sichuan Airlines
• 1 A350-1000 to STARLUX Airlines
• 1 A220-300 to TAAG Angola Airlines
• 1 A320neo to TAP Air Portugal
• 2 A321neos to United Airlines
• 1 A321neo to Viva Aerobus
• 3 A321neos to Wizz Air

The number of orders in 2026 now stands at 408 orders and ten cancellations, leaving a net of 398. The total number of deliveries so far is 114.

Airbus Updates No.2941

 Juneyao Air Takes Delivery Of Its First A321neo Aircraft.

On November 27th, Shanghai-based airline Juneyao Air finally took delivery of its very first Airbus A321neo. This A321 is unlike most brand-new planes, which don’t come with an interesting backstory. However, this delivery comes after the aircraft spent four months in storage, followed by one month spent stranded in Kazakhstan due to engine issues. Yesterday’s flight from Tianjin to Shanghai means the jet is finally at its new home.

The airline already has over 60 Airbus A320 family jets, having taken delivery of its first A320neo in July of 2020. Photo: Kevin Hackert via Flickr

The delivery flight

While it looks like FlightRadar24.com, at the time of publication, is missing details of the delivery flight from Tianjin, data from AIB Family Flights shows that the A321neo’s delivery flight took place on November 27th. The aircraft, registered as B-30EQ, departed Tianjin Binhai International Airport (TSN) on November 27th at 14:48 UTC. Without the actual flight data available, we do know that regularly scheduled passenger flights from Tianjin to Shanghai take about two hours and 10 minutes.

While this delivery flight would usually be the only flight data reported when writing about a ‘first delivery,’ B-30EQ has a special story – having spent mid-October to mid-November stranded in Kazakhstan.

Before reaching China

It’s already been a long journey for the A321neo. The aircraft, with test registration D-AVYW, was assembled and completed at Airbus’ Hamburg Finkenwerder facility all the way back in July of 2020. However, due to the catastrophic events of 2020, Juneyao saw no need to take the aircraft at the time. Instead, the jet was sent into storage at Erfurt Airport.

This is what Airport Spotting had to say about the Erfurt Airport and its 2020 activities:

“Erfurt-Weimar airport in eastern Germany is a quiet, regional airport which usually sees a mix of general aviation traffic, and summer holiday charter flights…However, thanks to the need to store airliners, Erfurt’s parking aprons have become home to some unusual visitors…They are all brand new A320 family aircraft, awaiting delivery to customers mostly in China. Carriers include Air China, Capital Airlines, China Eastern, China Southern, and Juneyao Air, plus AirAsia and Saudi Gulf Airlines.”

Problems over Kazakhstan

The A321neo was stored at Erfurt from July 16th to October 6th. After this, the jet returned to Hamburg Finkenwerder to be spruced up for the customer, departing Germany for China on October 15th.

However, the jet experienced engine issues on the October 15th flight and diverted to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan that day. It spent a month there, listed as ‘stranded‘ because of these engine issues.

After a test flight around Nur-Sultan and Karagandy, Kazakhstan on November 14th, the jet finally flew to Tianjin the next day. It is in Tianjin that Airbus has an A320 final assembly plant and an A330 Completion and Delivery Center. The latter was opened in 2016.