What went down at Dubai’s Airshow 2023? Twin-aisle aircrafts stole the spotlight, with 199 orders for widebody planes: Emirates, EgyptAir, Ethiopian Airlines, flydubai, Royal Jordanian, and Royal Air Maroc ordered various widebody aircrafts, including the Airbus A350-900, Boeing 777X, and 787s, Simple Flying reports.

However, wide body aircraft excitement was tainted by concerns over the availability of engines and supply chain challenges running through 2024, Forbes reports.

Airshow versus Airbus? Airbus and Boeing both secured a combination of 393 aircraft orders, with 50% dedicated to wide-body aircrafts, according to Forbes. However, Boeing outpaced Airbus in order numbers by raking in a whopping USD 52 bn deal with Emirates on the first day of the airshow.

Airlines were wary of the Airbus A320neo due to complications related to the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbo Fan Groundings, Forbes writes. American aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney revealed back in September that the turbo fan engine had “defective high-pressure turbine and compressor discs,” Flight Global wrote.

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