Airbus needs more time to decide on A380 changes

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PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA) will not abandon its A380 jumbo jet program despite slow sales, its chief executive told Les Echos newspaper, and needs more time to decide whether to redesign its engines as major customer Emirates Airline has requested.

Emirates, the leading buyer of the existing A380 jet with 140 orders, has been pushing Airbus to revamp the plane with newer engines, a move that could lower the number of seats airlines must sell to break even.

Airbus boss Fabrice Bregier appeared to rebuff the request in the interview with Les Echos published online on Sunday.

"We are already working on ways to make the A380 more attractive economically by adding seats while preserving the amazing comfort of the plane," he said.

"Long-term, the question will be how to improve its performance by working on aerodynamics and motorization. But we will not do that until a good business plan can be found. That is not the case now and we have no intention to spend indiscriminately."

The CEO added that the A380 program would break even by the end of the year, and that Airbus hoped to maintain its financial performance.

On Airbus' other new relatively new model, the A350, Bregier said that Qatar Airways has seen no issues with the plane after two months of service. Airbus aims to deliver about 15 A350s this year and eventually up to 10 per month by 2018.
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We are already working on ways to make the A380 more attractive economically by adding seats while preserving the amazing comfort of the plane," he said.
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This dude obviously travels business class.

Emirates A380 is phenominal up front, but not so lekker down back - except for the various flavour of air hostess.
 
TEXTILE GUY said:
This dude obviously travels business class.

Emirates A380 is phenominal up front, but not so lekker down back - except for the various flavour of air hostess.
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Then I advise you to double check what aircraft model you fly next time you fly to Copenhagen from Dubai. They are configuring a A380 with over 600 seats to fly that route later in the year. :)
 
This is not a Boeing thread. I disapprove.



:p
 
The first thought that popped in my head when I saw the pic in the OP was thank god that suicidal German wasn't flying one of these.

If you're going to load up that many people in one plane, it better be the safest plane ever made. And it better not allow the pilots to lock themselves in an impregnable cockpit.
 
RichardG said:
@ Ockle How many flying hours do you've behind your name... when will you be a qualified long haul pilot for passenger flights.
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Tagging only works if there isn't a space between the @ and username, and if the username is spelled correctly.

@Ockie
 
Bryn said:
Tagging only works if there isn't a space between the @ and username, and if the username is spelled correctly.

@Ockie
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So you've hijacked the thread. Fine. Now tell me more about this tagging thing. What is it used for in the forum and how does it work?
 
Hoekachaka said:
So you've hijacked the thread. Fine. Now tell me more about this tagging thing. What is it used for in the forum and how does it work?
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Tagging is used by most forums to grab the attention of a user. Only Tapatalk users on MyBB can detect tags though. It's the same notification that you'd get if someone quoted you.
 
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