{"id":653038,"date":"2026-05-07T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653038\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:55:09","slug":"airasia-signs-major-deal-for-airbus-a220-jets-made-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653038\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia signs major deal for Airbus A220 jets made in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AirAsia X will buy 150 Canadian-made Airbus A220 aircraft, a multibillion-dollar sale for the European planemaker that will provide a boost for its manufacturing site in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Fernandes, co-founder of the Southeast Asian budget carrier, signed the agreement at the Airbus Canada factory in Mirabel, Quebec, where the plane is made.<\/p>\n<p>The AirAsia deal is for A220-300s, which seat up to 160 passengers. Airlines typically receive substantial discounts for large transactions. The deal also includes an option for 150 additional aircraft of a higher-capacity variant of over 180 seats, the A220-500, which has yet to enter production, Fernandes said in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AirAsia X will buy 150 Canadian-made Airbus A220 aircraft, a multibillion-dollar sale for the European planemaker that will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[242261,75254,2344,16595,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-653038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-airasia","tag-airbus","tag-airlines","tag-aviation","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}