Saudi start-up Riyadh Air – which has hired Irish aviation executives Ray Gammell and Peter Bellew – is ‘actively engaged’ in talks to buy aircraft, its CEO Tony Douglas saidA Riyadh Air Boeing 787-9 on display during the Paris Air Show on Monday. The Saudi start-up recently hired Irish aviation executives Ray Gammell and Peter Bellew to help plan for its launch.
“No one has ever ordered an order of this magnitude,” IndiGo chief executive Pieter Elbers said from the podium. “It speaks to the potential of Indian aviation and the ambitions which Indigo is having.” Aviation executives arrived in Paris on Monday for the first air show in the city in four years. The industry’s biggest conclave is expected to yield a bounty of jetliner orders for Boeing and Airbus.
The industry is struggling to manage a surge of growth after travellers stormed back to the skies in force after the Covid-19 pandemic. Chief among the challenges are persistent supply chain kinks that have slowed output. That’s left some airline executives wondering when they’ll finally get the jets they’re ordering at the show, while Airbus and Boeing are pushing to raise production as fast they can to help alleviate the bottleneck.