Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) has outlined some of the details of a General Terms Agreement (GTA) signed with the China Aviation Supplies Holding Company (CAS) in March. The GTA has provision for the purchase of a total of seventy one Airbus aircraft including forty-three A320 Family aircraft and twenty-eight A330s.

The European manufacturer disclosed that out of the 28 widebody jets, China Southern Airlines (CZ, Guangzhou) will get nine A330-300s; China Eastern Airlines (MU, Shanghai Hongqiao) - five A330-200s and two A330-300s; Air China (CA, Beijing Capital) - four A330-300s; and Hainan Airlines (HU, Haikou) - two A330-200s and six A330-300s (of which one is destined for subsidiary, Hong Kong Airlines (HX, Hong Kong International)).

The GTA also makes provision for Airbus and its Chinese partners, Tianjin Free Trade Zone and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), to extend their Joint Venture to assemble A320 Family aircraft in China for an additional 10 years. The second phase of the FALC project, covering 2016 to 2025, will see an expansion in deliveries to the whole Asian region and will also include the final assembly of the A320neo Family from 2017 onwards.