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2006-10-10 Europe

Airbus sets aside 1.0 billion euros for A380 compensation

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Posted by Steve White 2006-10-10 00:30|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Can anyone confirm that Rolls Royce has stopped work on the A380 engine program? I picked that up this past weekend, cannot remember where, and have not seen it in any publication. And no, I was not reading with beer goggles on....

Posted by USN,Ret 2006-10-10 01:10|| 2006-10-10 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone mentioned it in passing while posting to yesterday's thread about massive delay compensation being paid out by EAD. Here's a link.

"Aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce said on Friday it had suspended work on the Trent 900 engine for the Airbus A380 superjumbo for about 12 months."

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-10 03:18|| 2006-10-10 03:18|| Front Page Top

#3 "Emirates announced plans on Sunday to buy 20 747-8 Freighter planes from US aerospace giant Boeing for a total of 5.6 billion dollars"

The sound of the other shoe dropping.

Posted by TZSenator 2006-10-10 04:57|| 2006-10-10 04:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Makes the Concord(e) look like a profitable plane.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-10 06:33|| 2006-10-10 06:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Airbus has not made no provisions however to cover possible cancellations from airlines

Barely literate... appalling English.

Posted by Howard UK 2006-10-10 06:36|| 2006-10-10 06:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Barely literate... appalling English.

(AFP)

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-10 06:37|| 2006-10-10 06:37|| Front Page Top

#7 EADS, Dieing a slow death while Boeing's production line get busy. Gotta love the US aviation industry.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-10-10 07:50|| 2006-10-10 07:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I think the A380 will be the final nail in Airbus' coffin. They will still be around, but only to make smaller planes that Boeing won't and to make parts for their exsisting fleet.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-10-10 10:10|| 2006-10-10 10:10|| Front Page Top

#9 USN, Ret.,

I believe that was in Aviation Week. Really the most important comment of all on the health of the program. No confidence.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-10 11:17|| 2006-10-10 11:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks for filling in the blanks Zen and Spec Ops.
And in other Airbus news; while they can't build a working A 380, they are looking at ways to shuffle production around to revive the A350 ( the one that got severly critiqued at the Airshow earlier tis year) they want to move production out of Germany and consolidate it in France. That has the Germans in an uproar, and rightly so. This whole farce reminds me of the failed MacDonnel-Douglas /General Dynamics Navy A-12 fiasco fo the recent past. Trying to make a 50/50 proposition work and keep everybody happy at the expense of efficient production. In the end all you end up with is a pised off customer base, a pile of partially completed airplanes / parts and the competition gets the work. Funny how in both cases Boeing is the winner ( Yes I know that Mac D originally designe and built the Lawn Dart(Hornet), but Boeing's name is on the grille now).

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-10-10 14:28|| 2006-10-10 14:28|| Front Page Top

#11 There is more to this for AirBus. They've been trying to get every A380 system they can into A400M production version.

This way they get paid twice for much of the development and production of A380. Systems that end up in A400M (or another military hauler) would be spread over greater numbers than just A380. Although, the accounting is ovbiously separate, the scale of economy is not.

Their project leadership auroa is gone now. Integration of the systems into other projects may not be a given now.

However, RR, has not stopped on Trent 900. Design refinement continues as does design for the support equipment (stands, lifts, etc). They'll still continue production and testing cycles. When necessary they'll scale up.

Posted by bombay">bombay 2006-10-10 23:12|| 2006-10-10 23:12|| Front Page Top

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