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High Profile Manager provides production of giant flier after 2018 the question. Share breaks down after a profit warning
By Volker Mester
Hamburg. Although the mega-flyer Airbus A380 has sold recently been slow. Nevertheless, this news came as a complete surprise: The manufacturer is thinking about the end of the double-decker jet to. The Group will either modernize the type of aircraft from the year 2018 with more fuel-efficient engines or cease production, CFO Harald Wilhelm announced on Wednesday in London at an investor event on.
This is obviously an extreme scenario, but. “We have to A380 still a lot of promising cards in hand,” said company spokesman Stefan Schaffrath. We review a number of opportunities to develop the aircraft. “We believe in the A380,” said Tom Enders, CEO of the parent company Airbus Group, at the same event
His problem:. Come in the next few years, more and more twin-engine aircraft the latest technology on the market that can carry up to 400 passengers at similarly low or even lower cost per passenger than the A380′s four engines and more than 500 seats. Boeing has announced the Model 777-8 such a jet for early next decade, but also Airbus itself will also bring 2017 with the A350-1000 aircraft this category on the market.
In this context, urges especially Tim Clark, head of the main A380 customers Emirates Airline, on a more economical version of the Airbus flagship. According to reports, he calls for a response from the manufacturer to see if they wanted to build a modernized version of the Mega jets with a reduced ten to twelve percent consumption or not, even within the next few months.
But business point this represents an enormous challenge Airbus: next year will be achieved in the production of the A380, which took off for the first time in 2005, the black. Only then would begin to recoup the development costs of approximately twelve billion euros again
Any substantial change to the aircraft -. In particular the equipment with more modern engines – but would more cause development costs by up to two billion euros.
In the event that Airbus plans to build such an embodiment of the Jets, Emirates boss Clark had the order of 60 to asked 70 other machines in view. So far, a total of 318 machines from the manufacturer of the A380 were ordered, only 140 orders came from Emirates. About 150 airmen were delivered to twelve customers. “It run more promising sales campaigns,” Schaffrath said, “we expect next year results.”
The future of the A380 is the Airbus site in Hamburg from considerable importance. Although the work is to Finkenwerder the competence center for the A320 family of short- and medium-haul jets. More than one in two of these airmen who are selling well is built on the Elbe.
But for the A380 Airbus by earlier statements alone in the Hanseatic city 2,300 new jobs. The extensions to the mill in Loch was due not least to the A380 project. In Hamburg fuselage sections are manufactured for this aircraft and delivered to the final assembly line in Toulouse. In addition, all of the mega Jets get here their interior and paint. Upon completion, are machines that are intended for customers in Europe or the Middle East, delivered in Hamburg, the other for fly back to Toulouse.
Apart from the confusing signals to the A380 Airbus on Wednesday there was a bad message to the new medium-sized long-haul A350: The scheduled for Saturday delivery of the first copy is delayed. “The handover ceremony was postponed indefinitely”, said the Arab airline Qatar Airways, which is to get the first A350. Information on the reasons for the delay did not the company. Tom Enders was confident that the ceremony could be made up before the end of this year.
Most recently, the delivery of the first of the Qatari airline certain A380 had -Jets delayed by several months. The current to be particularly challenging Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al-Baker had complained about the interior of the aircraft and demands of Airbus improvements.
Meanwhile announced the Airbus Group, that the operating profit of the Group in 2016 due to the transition of production from the A330 to the A350 and because of the development of the new A330neo is temporarily stagnate. The stock broke then on Wednesday at around ten percent.
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