AIRBUS announced more new orders for aircraft at the Dubai Air Show yesterday.

Yemenia, the official carrier of the state of Yemen, signed a £420m deal for 10 Airbus A320 aircraft and executive jet operator Comlux announced the purchase of an Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ).

The Comlux order is the tenth ACJ corporate jetliner ordered by the Swiss-based firm, making it the largest Airbus ACJ customer.

Yemenia’s first A320 Aircraft will be delivered in 2011. It will be used to fly regional routes from Yemen’s capital city, Sana’a, to African, Indian and southern Europe routes. The airline also has Airbus A350XWB aircraft on order.

Wings for all Airbus aircraft are built at the firm’s Broughton factory, near Chester, which employs more than 6,000 people.

Elsewhere at the show Airbus president Tom Enders joined top Boeing officials in forecasting a recovery in demand next year.

He said the market was improving and added there was no longer talk of cancellations and deferrals.

“We are at the end of a very difficult year for both airlines and manufacturers. But the orders and announcements made at this air show in Dubai sends a very strong signal of recovery in 2010 for the whole industry,” he said. Ethiopian Airlines has already ordered 12 A350 XWBs at the air show and two further orders are expected to be announced there today.

Airbus parent EADS has plunged to its first loss in two years amid lingering uncertainty over major aircraft programmes.

The aerospace giant lost £78m between July and September, compared with profits of £609m a year earlier.

The firm is being squeezed by a weaker dollar because its aircraft orders are in dollars, but most of its costs are in euros.

EADS said “ongoing uncertainty” over its A380 superjumbo and A400M military carrier aircraft programme left it unable to forecast the extent of the damage to full-year results.