In this article written by Miika Haatio, Head of Fleet Engineering A350 at Finnair, he explains some details of his work at Toulouse during the development phase of the A350 as member of the “Airline Office”.
“I was
stationed in Toulouse for 3 years, and I represented Finnair at Airbus’ airline
office together with colleagues representing five other airlines” Haatio said.
“Airbus’
strength is in designing aircraft. We brought in the operators point of view,
what the aircraft should be like in terms of airlines expectations in
operability and maintainability.”
Source: Airbus
“I really am
confident that not only the A350 is an excellent aircraft for us to operate but
it also brings the comfort of travel experience for our customers to the next
level.”
Source: Airbus
“We are
the 1st airline in Europe to fly the A350, and this position isn’t anything new
to us. We may be a small airline but we’ve always been courageous enough to
look in the future well ahead. “
“It will be
an absolute joy and emotional moment when the ribbon gets cut and we’ll fly our
first baby home.”
“The big day
is in just few weeks. I’m sure receiving the plane in Toulouse will be an
emotional moment for me and the company as a whole.”
Based on the
article “Designing state of the art aircraft” published in Finnair.blog.com
Have just read an article from Airbus press centre dated 16th dec 2014
ReplyDelete"First Finnair A350 taking shape in the Rogerr Beteille FAL" REALLY? Where is it? thats over 9months for one aircraft! Well Airbus, you are really going to have to "Ramp up" very seriously, very soon.
MSN 18 is finished and parked on the flightline preparing for 1st flight since end of august.
DeleteYou seriously don't have a clue on large scale industrial ramp-ups. It takes 3 months to build a 777 from scratch and that's an aircraft that's been in productions for years. 9 months is not unusual for early aircraft due to the re-work required to introduce changes made during certification. Batch 3 aircraft are about to enter production and this will reduce the rework time. 5 aircraft are now on the flightline - all but one is flying. Now the summer holidays are over there has been a marked increase in activity.
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