A.FLOOR

I'm trying to get a better understanding of the relationship between the CEO and the NEO? I understand the NEO pretty well, but is the CEO going to cease to exist when the neo comes out? Will the airlines that already have the CEO with the sharklets add the "new engine" making it the NEO or somehow convert it? Pardon my ignorance, I'm working on a project that discusses them, and I can't quite understand the relationship between the two anywhere I go...

kfahmi

That's easy. The A320CEO comes standard with the following features that are sure to please every airline CEO out there.

• It flies itself. Totally automated. No crew required, therefore no pesky unions, contracts, or the need to sell one's seventh house during bankruptcy negotiations with the union just to make it look better in the media.

• It fixes itself, too. So the entire maintenance department can be outsourced to Liberia, where A&Ps making $0.30/hr can remotely sign off any discrepancy. (CEO would've abolished the MX department entirely, but the FAA wasn't quite ready to sign off on that.)

• The extremely low pressurization differential renders pax unconscious for the duration of each flight, thereby obviating the need for food & bev service and lavs (which can be removed and replaced with additional 28-inch pitch seats.)

See? The perfect airplane for any airline CEO

Sliceback

NEO engine is much heavier so the wing is different internally.

I believe that AB has said the wing changes could not be done to the CEO's.

Google. Or email AB.

Aero1900

The current engine option will no longer be available. The modifications to the wing to handle the heavier engine would just make the CEO a less efficient airplane. The Airbus as we know it today will only be produced for about a year.

What I want to know is how much more expensive the neo is?

Judge Smails

False.....Spirit has deliveries for A320/321ceo's scheduled through the end of 2018.

Aero1900

After future research, you are correct. The CEO will be produced until the end of 2018. There was an expectation at one point that all CEO order would be converted to NEO, but I guess that's not the case. I'm sure there are a lot of negotiations about price going on with the last of the old airplanes. I remember reading that delta got a really good price on the last of the non MAX 737s that they ordered last year.