Behind the scenes, the Airbus sales team has been busy, signing orders for 139 new aircraft.
Virgin Atlantic bought seven new widebody A330 aircraft, with a list price of around $800m (£620m).
Another big order came from Japan Airlines for 20 long haul A350-900 jets, and 11 single aisle A321neo planes, worth just over $3bn (£2.3bn).
To any normal industry, these would be huge numbers.
But aviation is a one-off. The market is dominated by Airbus and Boeing, who sell the vast majority of big passenger jets the world over.
And they like doing it in style at the big airshows.
The Airbus deal with Virgin was actually signed on board a brand new A330 jet, painted in Virgin colours and named “Ruby Rebel”, in a nod to Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson.
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