EK156 From United Arab Emirates, joined May 2005, 765 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 5067 times:
My oh my.... and everybody thought Airbus was struggling after the delay of the A 380. It seems that they are as strong as ever... Good on you Airbus!!
AirFrnt From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 2775 posts, RR: 43 Reply 2, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 5017 times:
Quoting KL911 (Thread starter): Just announced on the French TF1 news, Airbus said that we'll get more A350 orders this week, and that the program is doing very well...
KL911
What did you expect them to say? We tried to feed everyone a half baked A330, got our rear ends handed to us by AC and NW, but we now have a new plane that at least has a prayer of getting orders?
KL911 From Ireland, joined Jul 2003, 4977 posts, RR: 14 Reply 3, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 4951 times:
Quoting AirFrnt (Reply 2): What did you expect them to say? We tried to feed everyone a half baked deritivitive of the A330, got our rear ended handed to us by AC and NW, but we now have a new plane that at least has a prayer of getting orders?
It means that the A350 is selling well, and it even hasn't been launched officially yet....
KL911
" The European consumer would crawl naked over broken glass to get low fares." Michael O'Leary
RJ111 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 4936 times:
I guess the HP/US one cold go down, as well as maybe a leasing company.
Quoting AirFrnt (Reply 2): What did you expect them to say? We tried to feed everyone a half baked deritivitive of the A330, got our rear ended handed to us by AC and NW, but we now have a new plane that at least has a prayer of getting orders?
I didn't even expect a person like you to say something quite so wreckless.
Ken777 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 7455 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 4876 times:
It means that the 350 is selling, but at what cost?
Development costs are probably being pushed up from initial estimates. The 787 is selling well enough to put a lot of price pressure on the 350. The potential for 330/340 customers to want some very special deals on converting their fleets over time might also put on cost pressures.
I'm glad to see the QR 350 order and look forward to seeing the split of firm orders and options. I'm looking forward to see what the rest of the week will bring.
PlanesNTrains From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 4540 posts, RR: 28 Reply 6, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 4841 times:
Quoting Ken777 (Reply 5): I'm glad to see the QR 350 order and look forward to seeing the split of firm orders and options. I'm looking forward to see what the rest of the week will bring.
Congrats to both A & B.
It's definitely healthy for Airbus and Boeing to remain strong competitors in as many segments as possible. The A330 has been a great plane, and the A350 will likely build on that. Other than perhaps the 772ER for Boeing (and of course the A330/340 for Airbus), there appears to be room for everyone.
AvObserver From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 2430 posts, RR: 10 Reply 11, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 4152 times:
"i have a bad feeling el al will order A350."
Not if many billions of $ in U.S. aid over the years have anything to say about it. You can bet they'll be strong pressure from Tel Aviv on the airline to buy 787, even if it's free to do otherwise. Bad time to be pissing off the Bush Administration, after all its posturing in support of Israel. I doubt Sharon would want to risk any reduction in U.S. aid right now, given the lingering Palestinian issue and general uncertainties in the Middle East. That wouldn't be very "Kosher" - pun intended.
MidnightMike From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 2892 posts, RR: 16 Reply 12, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 4124 times:
Quoting KL911 (Reply 3): It means that the A350 is selling well, and it even hasn't been launched officially yet....
KL911
The A350 has been offered for sale since last year.
NumberTwelve From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 1431 posts, RR: 10 Reply 13, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 4072 times:
Quoting AvObserver (Reply 11): "i have a bad feeling el al will order A350."
Not if many billions of $ in U.S. aid over the years have anything to say about it.
First of all it would be a great success for LY to order the 350. Also European countries are paying, AvObserver. And for what do you pay Israel? Just to buy planes?
Art From Lebanon, joined Feb 2005, 2937 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (7 years 11 months 2 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 3696 times:
Quoting AirFrnt (Reply 2): We tried to feed everyone a half baked A330, got our rear ends handed to us by AC and NW, but we now have a new plane that at least has a prayer of getting orders?
I think history may show that AC and NW did Airbus an enormous favour in declining the misconceived product offered to them.
Quoting Amirs (Reply 9): i have a bad feeling el al will order A350.
And exactly why is it a "bad" thing?
Quoting Columba (Reply 16): Emirates is about to order 50 A350s.
Because it is in german I can't read it, but I'll take you for your word that somewhere in there it mentions EK are now going to order the A350... I am a little confused because last week it seemed all deals with EK stalled and no order for the A350 would be made (yet). Maybe QR have forced EK to play their hand?
This is TF1 news ... You're not talking about real information but about a populist TV show ...
But, we all know they will have more A350 orders this week ... That's not what I call news (may be known news ...), the only questions are who and how many A/Cs
To any North American carrier, send us a regular flight in MRS !!!!!
From the Google translator, here is the part about EK:
Quote: Duesseldorf/Paris - the airline of emirate airlines prepares the order of 50 A350, reports the "trade paper" with reference to industry circles. The billion-order of the Arab state line is presumably only on the Dubai air Show in November admits to be given.
They say they have sources in the aviation industry... I think it is a quite weak source. We often see F/A's, pilots, staffs saying something about their company ending up being completely false.
I think we just have to wait until their official announcement. Until then, everything is possible. Look at QR, a lot of people thought they were going for the B787, we even had some "I can't tell my source but I can guarantee you they go for the B787"
Bearcuban12 From Germany, joined Mar 2005, 89 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (7 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 1785 times:
I love the B vs A threads....... All you have to do is look at the country of origin of the threads before you actually read what they have to say, and you see who they are fighting for.... As predictable as Essendon finishing in the bottom 8 this year in the Australian football.......
25 EmmenezMoi: For info, the Spiegel article mentions the fact that the order is likely to be announced only at the Dubai air show (not now). Are you implying that
26 Monteycarlos: Well you'll have to wait an see, yet to be fair the A350 seems to be bigger so it all depends on what the likes of LY want. Well that is probably goi
27 FlyAUA: Yes the A350 is doing better than most speculation on here. There is also talk of a joint order by Star Alliance by the way (this would give those air
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