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Spirit Aerosystems: Polish boost for Belfast factory
A Polish airline has ordered 40 Airbus A220 planes, the wings of which are made in firm, Lot, has placed an order with Airbus for 20 A220-100s and 20 of the larger company could ultimately buy up to to 84 A220s, it announced at the Paris Air well as the wings, part of the A220 fuselage is made at the Spirit Aerosystems operation in east Belfast.
Purchased expected late 2025
Airbus is currently in the process of buying Spirit's A220 wing manufacturing Fijoł, the chief executive of Lot, said the airline would start operating A220s in 2027 as part of gradual fleet the end of May 2025, the A220 had secured more than 900 firm orders from more than 30 customers worldwide, with over 415 aircraft already is expected to complete the purchase of the A220 wing plant in Belfast later this year but there is still uncertainty for much of the workforce at wider global business is being carved up between Boeing and Airbus, the world's largest aircraft major uncertainty in Belfast is for the workers on the non-Airbus part of the business, which mostly involves work on a range of Bombardier business workers will become part of Boeing by default if a third party does not buy the remainder of the Belfast have called on Airbus and the UK government to find a way to keep the whole Belfast site under a single have warned that a loss of economies of scale and the fragmenting of production lines poses a risk to the long-term future of aerospace in Northern Ireland and the highly skilled jobs in the sector.
