The Wednesday of this week was a bad day for one of the two leading aircraft manufacturer in the world. Quite surprisingly, apparently also for the company itself, first made Qatar Airways retired: The important launch customer for the new Airbus long-haul aircraft A350 announced first with a cryptic message on his Facebook page, the world’s first A350 not like just before a week announced solemnly take in Toulouse on Saturday. “The acquisition is postponed until further notice,” it said, without giving a reason. The shock waves act according to Airbus shares slipped after their slump of ten per cent on the previous day by another five percent.
where Airbus is rightfully proud that the first time largely of lightweight and high strength composites existing twin-engine aircraft is in contrast to most other aircraft programs of recent years was finished on time and without any glitches and delays in approval and testing.
Homemade irritations
” The airplane is on the ramp, ready for delivery, and we are confident that the acquisition will be held by our customers Qatar Airways very soon, “said Airbus CEO Tom Enders was then on Wednesday evening on an investor forum in London optimistic. Internally at Airbus, however, clear grumbling about the antics of the feared and sometimes autocratic acting boss of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, to be heard. He had taken only in September after months of stalemate and costly rework its first A380 by the manufacturer. This was also when the public was swept under the carpet, quite well production and quality problems in the Airbus production made manifest.
hopefuls A 350
However, after this low blow amid its first flight in June 2013 from the outside Airbus top management even with the already mentioned Investors Forum from a discussion on the future of the largest passenger aircraft in the world. Since the A380 has always been more than other aircraft stands by its size in the public eye, dominate on Thursday headlines about the alleged “From . for the A380 “It had some media CFO Harald Wilhelm the obvious pronounced. In its current form, the A380 is difficult to dispose And in 2018, the production would not expect any named for Airbus For 2015, it is promised the break-. even, but only for the cost of production. The development cost of around 20 billion euros to Airbus and the participating European countries, including Germany, probably write off anyway.
Risk major customer
To make the A380 attractive, take around with new, more fuel-efficient engines, as was recently the other Airbus A320 and A330, the manufacturer would have a lot of money in hand. And whether it’s worth, because only large customer Emirates has then made another 60 to 70 orders in view, and further orders are unsure, is highly questionable. Actually, the design of the A380 also provides an extended version to which Emirates is also very keen. But for this, Airbus had been very tight-lipped ebanfalls. Came clear at least Emirates boss Tim Clark. He told Reuters the airline was willing to invest a lot of money in a modernized version of the A380.
In any case, it is risky for any manufacturer to rely on the sales of a product essentially to a single client to have. Already accounted for 140 of the Emirates far only 318 firm orders for the A380 as a whole, or almost 45 percent of the total volume. Just 53 A380s, the airline operates from Dubai currently has. If Airbus on a so-called “A380neo” version gets involved with new engines, whose development has offered Rolls-Royce, the dependence
Cheap forecast
Although Airbus builds on the latest forecasts by the World line aviation organization IATA, see the 2015 world passenger traffic growth of seven percent, are not directly derive from incoming orders for the A380. The market has the competition between Airbus and Boeing currently chosen in such a way that smaller, fuel-efficient long-range aircraft such as the successful Boeing 787 and now its competitor, the A350, are more in demand. They can be also long-distance routes between medium-sized airports operate profitably. On the other hand, it is for most airlines very hard to fill the 500 seats of A380 and to still be profitable. Emirates with its extremely powerful hub in Dubai is a notable exception. Perhaps the only, to the chagrin of the A380 manufacturer.
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