Airbus A350 XWB news

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Air France accelerates its fleet renewal and orders an additional 10 Airbus A350-900s

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/air- ... a350-900s/

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Qantas selects Airbus A350-1000 for Project Sunrise
https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/qant ... t-sunrise/

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Another year flies by with great success! To wrap up the amazing year of 2019, Qatar Airways is celebrating with a very special delivery of four new Airbus A350 in a span of just four days!

And they are not flying back to Victorville, Toulouse or Hamburg right after delivery

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And they are not flying back to Victorville, Toulouse or Hamburg right after delivery

It's not my intention to jeopardize this topic but isn't that a bit of a stupid remark?
Do you know the reason why they headed back to the US? I guess not…
And as far as I know, there are also a couple of Etihad A350-1000's stored in BOD, straight from the factory.

Cheers,
OO-JFP

[TLspotting]

And they are not flying back to Victorville, Toulouse or Hamburg right after delivery

It's not my intention to jeopardize this topic but isn't that a bit of a stupid remark?
Do you know the reason why they headed back to the US? I guess not…
And as far as I know, there are also a couple of Etihad A350-1000's stored in BOD, straight from the factory.

Cheers,
OO-JFP

The reason is not 100% sure but it can be cabin layout... (and maybe in Qatar some administrative stuff)

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And they are not flying back to Victorville, Toulouse or Hamburg right after delivery

It's not my intention to jeopardize this topic but isn't that a bit of a stupid remark?
Do you know the reason why they headed back to the US? I guess not…
And as far as I know, there are also a couple of Etihad A350-1000's stored in BOD, straight from the factory.

Cheers,
OO-JFP

But Etihads planes are there because of financial problems at Etihad. Totally different situation...
But you are right 1bout the first part of your comment.

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And they are not flying back to Victorville, Toulouse or Hamburg right after delivery

It's not my intention to jeopardize this topic but isn't that a bit of a stupid remark?
Do you know the reason why they headed back to the US? I guess not…
And as far as I know, there are also a couple of Etihad A350-1000's stored in BOD, straight from the factory.

Cheers,
OO-JFP

You might have realised that most comments in social media about flying seven Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners from Payne Field to Doha, and immediately thereafter to Victorville, are negative. What a waste of fuel and what a disastrous effect on climate and on the public opinion!

If the reason is administrative or financial (for Boeing to record the sale in 2019 instead of 2020, or any other reason that I don't know), the administrative rules are stupid: it would have been much more efficient to send the planes directly from Everett to Victorville.

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To get ownership, A/C's need to go through customs process in some countries, and that needs to be achieved with the A/C physically at the entrance port (airport), where custom are approved for such process.

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Airbus has revealed cancellations for 33 A350-900s, including eight from Hong Kong Airlines and 10 from Synergy Aerospace (Brazil). Another 15 were removed from the batch of 23 aircraft allocated to unidentified customers.

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On 20th Jan 2020, a British Airways A350-1000 suffered a hard landing at Tel Aviv:
https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/inte ... v-airport/

The Aviation Herald has now downgraded its report from initial qualification Accident (significant damage) to Incident (safety relevant event):
http://avherald.com/h?article=4d23c7df&opt=0

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Airbus to reportedly drop its A350 production to nine per month due to slowing orders for the plane. No timetable was disclosed.

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Lufthansa has appeared to reduce its A350-900 order total from 45 to 43, based on the Airbus orders update for January 2020.

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Airbus is moving ahead with the development of a freighter version of the A350 and would formally launch the programme once it secures a charter order.

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Aeroflot takes delivery of its first Airbus A350-900

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/aero ... -a350-900/

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Qantas has asked Airbus for an extension to a March 2020 end deadline to order up to 12 A350-1000s.

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March overview :

Order of 10 A350 from an undisclosed customer.

Cancellations :

5 A359 from Kuwait Airways
10 A350 (6 -1000 & 4 -900) from LATAM Brasil

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March overview :

Order of 10 A350 from an undisclosed customer.

Cancellations :

5 A359 from Kuwait Airways
10 A350 (6 -1000 & 4 -900) from LATAM Brasil

Delta Air Lines absorbs order for 10 Airbus A350 jets cancelled by LATAM.

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Sign of the times? Switching from larger to smaller: Cathay Pacific has switched two orders for the Airbus A350-1000 to the Airbus A350-900.