Emirates Airlines warned Airbus Not Postpone Delivery of A350
March 19, 2010 | Airbus, Airline Flight, Airline Industry, Airline Service, Airlines Companies, Airlines News
Emirates Airlines has issued a strong warning to Airbus not to delay the introduction of the A350.
“We have clearly told Airbus that we will not accept again what they did to us with the A380,” Emirates Airlines President Tim Clark told The Daily at the ITB tourism exchange in Berlin. He pointed out that unlike in the case of the A380 – which was two years late – Emirates Airlines has alternatives to buy elsewhere: “All I have to do is pick up the phone and order more Boeing 777s,” Clark stressed. He showed concerns that the schedule could already begin to slip. “We have told Airbus numerous times that in our view they should build in more margin in terms of time and performance parameters, but they wanted to have it their way. Now they are already eating into margins,” Clark criticized.
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