Emirates Warns Airbus Over A350XWB Delays

[Saj_A]

Emirates President Tim Clark said (http://is.gd/aFNSM) “we have clearly told Airbus that we will not accept again what they did to us with the A380.“

Clark goes on:

“We have told Airbus numerous times that in our view they should build in more margin in terms of time and performance parameters, but they wanted to have it their way. Now they are already eating into margins.“

“All I have to do is pick up the phone and order more Boeing 777s,” he said.

Emirates has stated recently that it may be poised to order more 777’s, and in comments made to the JP Morgan conference last week, Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ CEO Jim Albaugh said that he “anticipated more 777 orders in the near term. (http://www.fleetbuzzeditorial.com/2010/03/09/boeings-big-choices/)“

[Saj_A]

Emirates, Qatar Airways Differ On A350XWB Progress

Only two weeks ago Emirates raised concerns that Airbus’ buffer erosion in the A350XWB program was not acceptable. Now its Persian Gulf rival, Qatar Airways claims that there will be no delay, or that if there is one, it will only be a matter of months, in contrast to the debilitating delays witnessed on the 787 program.

But Emirates President Tim Clark has again spoken of problems (http://www.fleetbuzzeditorial.com/2010/03/29/airbus-a350xwb) on the big Airbus twin.

[Andrew M]

Would be nice for an order of 20-50 777-300ER's not alot of order going around at the moment for the 777!

[Mike W]

^ or anything else