Lion Air orders 234 A320 family aircraft

What is interesting in this order is the component of 60 x A320-CEO's, with deliveries starting in 2014.

The rest, .... we've been waiting for, ...... for how long, now ?

The good news is that, by the minute, these Airbus orders are showing up the ridicule of Boeing's bleatings about Airbus' "wrongful financing" of the A350-XWB;

All these Boeing moanings & groanings will disappear down the tubes, where these woeful noises belong !

The next piece of good news is that, once Boeing stop bleating, they will get on with the business of making really good aircraft, as they know how to !

Things are looking up !

Sounds as if Lion Air is planning expansion at a higher rate than Boeing can deliver planes and as such they've turned to Airbus to make sure the planes keep coming in at the rate they want to, remains the question: where's the money for all that metal coming from. OK, the US import/export have guaranteed part of the Boeing purchases but still...