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There is another issue to be considered, in addition to compensation, that of inflation. Airbus has fixed price contracts for the A380 in place. By delaying production and delivery, labor costs will probably be higher each year due to labor contracts. Also, I do not know what the suppliers (e.g., e...

I have been told that Noël Forgeard is still currently employed by Airbus as a consultant, perhaps someone could confirm this. If this is true it would make this whole exercise with Management changes trite. It was announced when he resigned in June, quite an old story... Don't read too many articl...

Streiff did the bad job: -saying what everybody thougth -planning the restructuration Now he is gone, but his ideas and plans are going to be used immediately. The management structure of EADS has changed and is brighter Enders EADS co-CEO and responsible for all EADS subsidiaries except Airbus SAS ...

bits44 wrote:Based on current and anticipated loads and planned future route expansion, you will with the boards approval, order or lease aircraft to cover those needs.

I think you have missed the risk management lecture...

The delay has now been stretched out to 2 years. It defies common sense that this all because they can't string a wiring harness. There has to more more serious problems that Airbus is not being upfront and honest about. They have what, 4 planes built and flying, but none can be delivered because o...

And let's don't forget the social cost for EADS workers will be high, too. EADS plan to cut the production costs, which means first reducing the work force. No hard lay-off (hopefully) for the moment but, as usual : forced early retirement, no more interim workers, fixed-term contracts not renewed,...

As I wrote in my first post, I was a candidate to the Air France cadet program, the first test was on September 23rd and I have just received my results, I have succeeded in this one. There was around 1000 people before and they are classified into 2 lists, the list 1 with all the first 300 people t...

David747 wrote:I saw on CNN that Airbus will announce more delays in the coming days? any more news on this issue?

Only four aircraft delivered in 2007 instead of 9.
AF deliveries are moved until April 2009.

it looks like an evolution of Corsair's registration F-GSEA, F-GSEX and F-GSUN

Bottie wrote:What did you expect Airbus to say ... Charles Champion is 'promoted' as our big chief his little helper?

So why not fire him ??? Why change the person in charge of the A380 program three months after the big anouncement ?

Charles Champion, head of the A380-programme untill yesterday, is replaced by Mario Heinen, former A320-programmeleader. It seems Charles Champion is held responsible for the delays for the A380. You should have read the end of the article Charles Champion (51) hands over the A380 programme to Mari...

contrailwatcherUK wrote:Hi

I have asked a friend who holds a CPL but he is not used with this tye of card (he uses Jeppesen).

Sorry for being useless

(I'm leaving my boring English countryside on Friday)

The airplane has not been relaunched yet, be patient

Vinnie-Winnie wrote:Wow campaign still going strong!

Looking at all your pics I'd certainly advertise Poznan as being the babe heaven! Though that might not attract the best behaved tourists around it would certainly increase flights to and from Poznan!

Vincent

We want to fly to Poznan LOL

this will be the moment of truth for the A380 project. Will Boeing be right that the hub strategy is the past and that the point to point strategy is the future? If Lufthansa buys A380's in the same numbers as Emirates, BA will have to follow , and AF+KLM. In that case, we might see a decrease of t...

Great impressive pistures indeed! I am amazed that all these A380s are painted in Airbus colours, none of them in a client's colours. Aren't most of them destined to customers? One stays for tests at Airbus (msn 001) The three others are for Etihad (the one with EA engines will have an engine chang...

Maintenance, Operations... safety depends more on the airlines than on the manufacturer.

Similar "arrestor beds" can be found all along the highways of Australia, especially in hilly or mountainous areas. But there they are meant for use by trucks, which can be VERY long and heavy in Australia! There are some on the highway between Marseille and Toulon and generally in all mo...

bae146be wrote:KLM heeft nog geen plannen om ife op de next generations te installeren! Wel is het zo dat de -800 en -900 allemaal nieuwe stoelen hebben gekregen met laptop aansluiting in de c-class. De oude stoelen van de 800/900 zijn nu in de 300/400 geplaatst.

I agree

The grinding of the landing gear produced sparks that set fire to the blown tires, must have looked like the B6 320 at LAX.

Thanks for this topic Cageyjames