Airbus says Airbus A380 to be delayed further --- late 2007?) - Airliners-India

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RE: Airbus says Airbus A380 to be delayed further --- late 2007?)

karatecatman · Member

Sept 15, 2006, 4.17 pm.

More delays are exprected , says Airbus according to a BBC bulletin.

SQ is to get all the 4 A380s that were pictured together in formation.

Qantas may now get the A380 in 2008 while the three Gulf carriers are pondering the next move.

Expect more pandemonium now.

Airbus says the wiring problem is more complex than its engineers thought it would be.

The report also said that Boeing is thinking of a two new aircraft models to replace the 737.

Boeing is to determine whether it should replace the 737 -- one for one -- with another one-class single-aisle aircraft. It is also studying the 80 and 90-seat market and what regional jet manufacturers are planning for 100-seat aircraft.

-- Edited by karatecatman at 17:29, 2006-09-15

karatecatman · Member

Airbus confirms the delay.

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www.uninews.com

Further delays in delivering Airbus A380: report

PARIS, Sept 20, 2006 (UNI)

European aircraft maker Airbus is facing further delays in the delivery of its A380 superjumbo airliner, for as much as six months, the financial newspaper Les Echos reported on Wednesday.

Early on Wednesday a spokeswoman for French airline Air France, an Airbus customer, said that the carrier ‘‘has been informed as have other companies’’ by Airbus ‘‘about a new delivery programme’’ for the A380 and was waiting for details.

Les Echos reported, without giving sources, that an Airbus executive committee had met on Monday to finalise the delivery schedule, which would lead to an additional six-month delay and a reduction in the number of planned deliveries next year.

The first A380 could be delivered as expected to Singapore Airlines in December, but it might not be put into service until April, according to the newspaper.

The first A380 for Air France is not expected to be in service until April 2009, the paper added.

When contacted by AFP late on Tuesday, an Airbus spokeswoman called the report ‘‘speculation at this stage’’.

Referring to a statement in July by the new Airbus chief executive Christian Streiff, she said ‘‘an internal review and an exhaustive analysis of the situation is under way and is not finished.’’

She added that a meeting of the parent company EADS board of directors was set for September 29 and ‘‘any decisions will be taken that day’’.

Arnaud Lagardere, co-chairman of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space company, said last week that the status of delays to production of the Airbus A380 would be known ‘‘by September 29’’.

EADS had announced in June that deliveries of the A380 to commercial customers would be delayed by at least a year because of production setbacks.

That revelation, coupled with a warning that EADS could suffer a two-billion-euro (2.6-billion-dollar) decline in operational earnings by 2010, caused a crisis for the company.

This prompted a management shake-up and raised questions among stock market analysts about the way the company communicated internally and with investors and customers.

On September 13, the chief executive of British aerospace group BAE Systems, a shareholder in Airbus for which it makes the wings, said that Airbus might have to announce further production delays for the A380 airliner and seek a fresh cash injection from shareholders.

Turner had said that ‘‘I would be surprised if there were not more delays’’ to the A380 programme.

At the time, a spokesman for EADS, which owns 80 percent of Airbus, said of Turner’s remark: ‘‘I don’t know where it comes from.’’

The price of shares in EADS was showing a fall of 3.21 percent to 21.95 euros in early trading in Paris Wednesday.

-- Edited by karatecatman at 16:04, 2006-09-20