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2006-10-08 Europe

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Posted by lotp 2006-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Emirates, the leading launch customer for the Airbus A380 super jumbo, is demanding £150m in compensation for delays to the crisis-hit programme.

Shit! I should have ordered a few of these Euro-Whales myself. I'd be set for life!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-08 04:55|| 2006-10-08 04:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not an economist but giving your customers large sums of money instead of goods and services they want sounds like a shaky business model. Maybe they could append 'over the Internet' to their business plan and call it the next .com boom.

Posted by SteveS 2006-10-08 06:46|| 2006-10-08 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The next dot com boom will be when the first A380 Arab Emirates Airlines takes deliver on crashes.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-08 07:36|| 2006-10-08 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not an economist but giving your customers large sums of money instead of goods and services they want sounds like a shaky business model.

I am, and you are correct.

Posted by Shipman 2006-10-08 08:49|| 2006-10-08 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm not an economist but giving your customers large sums of money instead of goods and services they want sounds like a shaky business model.

Use the money to buy two smaller aircraft, it's a bonus as it's very difficult for one airplane to go in two different directions at the same time.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-10-08 09:05|| 2006-10-08 09:05|| Front Page Top

#6 ...And yesterday, Rolls-Royce announced they were stopping work on the A380's engines.

Can we have the fat lady graphic, please?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-10-08 12:13|| 2006-10-08 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 And yesterday, Rolls-Royce announced they were stopping work on the A380's engines.

"We are now introducing the brand-new model A380 GLIDER!"

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-08 17:31|| 2006-10-08 17:31|| Front Page Top

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