Emirates Warns Airbus Over A350XWB Delays

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Emirates President Tim Clark said “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.“