flightdeck
December 11, 2000, 09:23 AM
It's coming! just read following article. Are we looking forward to it!?
http://www.flug-revue.rotor.com/FRtypen/FRfotair/A3XXk.GIF
European Aeronautic Defence and Space company (EADS) said on Thursday that the industrial launch of the A3XX superjumbo was expected to take place before the end of the year.
Airbus is owned 80 per cent by EADS and 20 per cent by BAE Systems of the UK.
Philippe Camus, joint chief executive of EADS, said that the two Airbus partners could meet very soon to approve the launch, even though no date had yet been set.
Airbus has 44 firm orders for the A3XX, including 12 placed by Qantas last week, and a further order for five or six aircraft is expected to be placed shortly by Virgin Atlantic. Negotiations are also at an advanced stage with FedEx, Atlas Air and Lufthansa.
Mr Camus said that Airbus could afford to end pre-launch discounts this month because "there comes a point when you have to close the ticket booth and move on".
The A3XX is set to become the world's largest civil aircraft, with seats for 555 passengers.
Mr Camus forecast that Airbus would reach 450 orders this year in a market that had "proved unexpectedly strong". It had originally expected orders to total between 200 and 250 compared with orders of 476 in 1999. Mr Camus said EADS expected to sign this month an agreement with the Russian government to co-operate in three businesses: commercial aircraft, helicopters and satellite launchers.
Mr Camus would not give financial details of the accord before it was signed. EADS would want to develop an "ultra-heavy" helicopter with Russia because Eurocopter, a subsidiary of EADS, did not have one in its range.
He also said that there would be no conflict of interest with the satellite projects of Arianespace, in which EADS has a 27 per cent stake, since the Russians launched a different and lighter type of satellite
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If God had intended man to fly, He would not have invented Spanish Air Traffic Control.
— Lister, in the BBC TV series, 'Red Dwarf.'
[This message has been edited by flightdeck (edited December 11, 2000).]
http://www.flug-revue.rotor.com/FRtypen/FRfotair/A3XXk.GIF
European Aeronautic Defence and Space company (EADS) said on Thursday that the industrial launch of the A3XX superjumbo was expected to take place before the end of the year.
Airbus is owned 80 per cent by EADS and 20 per cent by BAE Systems of the UK.
Philippe Camus, joint chief executive of EADS, said that the two Airbus partners could meet very soon to approve the launch, even though no date had yet been set.
Airbus has 44 firm orders for the A3XX, including 12 placed by Qantas last week, and a further order for five or six aircraft is expected to be placed shortly by Virgin Atlantic. Negotiations are also at an advanced stage with FedEx, Atlas Air and Lufthansa.
Mr Camus said that Airbus could afford to end pre-launch discounts this month because "there comes a point when you have to close the ticket booth and move on".
The A3XX is set to become the world's largest civil aircraft, with seats for 555 passengers.
Mr Camus forecast that Airbus would reach 450 orders this year in a market that had "proved unexpectedly strong". It had originally expected orders to total between 200 and 250 compared with orders of 476 in 1999. Mr Camus said EADS expected to sign this month an agreement with the Russian government to co-operate in three businesses: commercial aircraft, helicopters and satellite launchers.
Mr Camus would not give financial details of the accord before it was signed. EADS would want to develop an "ultra-heavy" helicopter with Russia because Eurocopter, a subsidiary of EADS, did not have one in its range.
He also said that there would be no conflict of interest with the satellite projects of Arianespace, in which EADS has a 27 per cent stake, since the Russians launched a different and lighter type of satellite
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If God had intended man to fly, He would not have invented Spanish Air Traffic Control.
— Lister, in the BBC TV series, 'Red Dwarf.'
[This message has been edited by flightdeck (edited December 11, 2000).]