The 17th Dubai Airshow 2021, which was held from 14 to 18 November at Dubai World Central International Airport, succeeded in attracting more than 1,200 local and international companies, in addition to the participation of 5 countries for the first time in the exhibition and more than 80 emerging companies, striking a date with the conclusion of the largest deals compared to the previous cycles of the event, despite the challenges facing the world as a result of the Covid-19 epidemic and the impact of the aviation and movement sector air directly.
However, the Dubai International Airshow was able to continue its success by holding a number of deals and accompanying conferences, in which the number of speakers exceeded 220 speakers from different countries of the world, in addition to visitors whose number exceeded 85,000, while providing an opportunity for the residents of the UAE to watch live shows for 3 hours a day. In the designated area of the exhibition grounds.
The focus of the show was on the resilience of the aviation industry. Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) were keen to present their new capabilities, and visitors and customers were only too excited and sometimes relieved, to see them for real. The biggest debut in Dubai was Boeing’s 777X aircraft.
An experimental 777X, which will be the largest twin-engine commercial aircraft when it enters service in 2023, was flown over to Dubai and opened for access to people outside Boeing for the first time. Emirates is the largest customer of this jet, having placed 126 of these on order.
Dubai, as usual, was the launchpad for new capabilities. In an airshow bereft of the usual massive widebody order announcements, Airbus scored with the launch of a new widebody freighter, the Airbus A350F, collecting an order of 7 of these aircraft. Freighter aircraft reflect the new reality of aviation as the mover of goods with the shipping lines clogged up due to the global container crisis, and will only grow further in the times ahead.
Clearly, aviation is back to connecting people, in ways that only it can do.
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