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Airbus has a $260 million wide-body jet that it just can't sell
As of October 2021, more than 20,000 orders have been placed for Airbus aircraft. The European aircraft manufacturers’ wide-body planes, specifically, can be found flying all over the world and are the backbone of numerous global airlines. (www.businessinsider.com) Mehr...
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Article is full of pop up advertisements and tons of scrolling, I quit reading
don't worry as long as Boeing keeps screwing up, they will be sold
Unreadable article, where are the editors on This web site, make the reading easier for all of us...
A whopping total of 15 orders for the A330-800 neo. Is Airbus even close to recover the testing / certification costs ?
This Business Insider article makes a mountain from a molehill. A330-800 was developed together with the longer A330-900, which has 270 orders so far. Since there is so much commonality between the two, development/testing/certification costs specific to the -800 variant were probably negligible, so not an existential threat to a company as large as Airbus.
Hello, Peter. I stand (or sit) corrected. Both 330-neo developed in similar time frame, with exclusively Trent 7000 engine offered, according to wikipedia
As per older posts - we share a common history of plane-spotting at the former Herndon airport, now Orlando executive KORL. It had a pretty good restaurant on second floor back in the day.
And rather short runway lengths handling commercial jets of the time - 727s of Eastern & National Airlines to KPHL and KJFK, and DC-8 for the Delta route to KATL.
As per older posts - we share a common history of plane-spotting at the former Herndon airport, now Orlando executive KORL. It had a pretty good restaurant on second floor back in the day.
And rather short runway lengths handling commercial jets of the time - 727s of Eastern & National Airlines to KPHL and KJFK, and DC-8 for the Delta route to KATL.
