10 April 2021
Philippine budget airline Cebu Pacific (CEB) will continue to upgrade its entire Airbus fleet with newer and more efficient planes starting this year until 2027, its annual report disclosed.
The planes were originally scheduled for delivery in 2020 until 2026 before the COVID-19 pandemic forced airlines to re-scheduled delivery of new fleet this year.
CEB will take delivery of 40 Airbus A321neo family aircraft, 16 A330neos and three more ATR 72-600s. or 59 new planes in total.
The carrier’s fleet currently comprised 74 planes, including eight A321neos, 25 Airbus A320, seven Airbus A321ceos, five Airbus A320neos, seven Airbus A330, six ATR 72-500 and 13 ATR 72-600 aircraft. It also has a subfleet of two ATR freighters and one A330 freighter.
“By 2027, Cebu Pacific will have retired its current fleet of Airbus jets, replaced with a fleet comprised of A321neo, A320neo and A330neo aircraft,” the budget carrier said in its annual report.
The airline took delivery of brand-new Airbus A321Neo last April 2 while seven more planes of the same type, and ATR were set to arrive for the remainder of 2021.
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