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2006-10-27 Europe

Virgin Atlantic to delay A380 deliveries until 2013

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Posted by Steve White 2006-10-27 00:17|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 is it dead yet?

Posted by RD 2006-10-27 03:25|| 2006-10-27 03:25|| Front Page Top

#2 "would give Airbus the ability to focus on getting first versions of the planes to key customers."

Virgin isn't "key"??? I would think that with the break even point being raised to 420 aircraft and only 159 on order each customer would be "key".

Posted by tzsenator 2006-10-27 08:29|| 2006-10-27 08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 China announced the order of a bunch of Airbus planes yesterday, according to CNBC. I didn't notice which body, but regardless that will pump some money into the company... eventually.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-27 08:35|| 2006-10-27 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I saw at CompUSA a flight simulator program for the A380 for sale. talk about mistiming the marketing campaign...

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-10-27 09:43|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-10-27 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I predict that Virgin Galactic will be flying space tourists before Virgin Atlantic flies an A380.

Posted by SteveS 2006-10-27 09:48|| 2006-10-27 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Chirac is in China hawking French goods and kissing babies. The Chinese ordered 150 A320s to be built in China and 20 A350s (ready in 10+ years). It will be interesting to see if the Chinese Airbus factory will export A320s (with as much Chinese built parts as possible) after the Chinese order is fulfilled.

Posted by ed 2006-10-27 10:14|| 2006-10-27 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 To follow up on Chirac's boasting: the Chinese plant for the 320s would be complete by 2009 (dunno if that is in real years or Airbus years) but, when done would be able to complete as many as 4 airplanes a year!!!! And a new startup airline in Columbus Ohio, called 'Skybus' has also ordered a whole double handful of Airbus planes. Industry analysts are very unrestrained in their skepticism surrounding the viability of Skybus.

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-10-27 15:19|| 2006-10-27 15:19|| Front Page Top

#8 (dunno if that is in real years or Airbus years)

Bwahahahaha! Airbus needs to be called, "Vaporbus". This is a golden instance of where China's antagonistic refusal to spend export revenues on the purchase of American goods will come back to bite them HARD. The combination of European patchwork engineering along with Chinese manufacturing's legendary graft and corner-cutting will make for some genuine flying death traps. In the professional travel industry China's national airline, CAAC, is reputed to stand for "China Air Always Crashes".

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-27 16:01|| 2006-10-27 16:01|| Front Page Top

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