Airbus gave its strongest signal yet on Monday that it plans to
build a new A350 jet to compete with Boeing's 777X.
Source: Airbus
Airbus sales chief John Leahy speaking at the Dubai Airshow said
that the European planemaker planned to decide within "a couple of
months" whether there was a market for an addition to its A350 family of
long-range planes capable of leapfrogging the 406-seat 777X-9.
Asked in an interview whether Airbus
would make a bigger A350, Leahy said: "We don't know yet.”
Source: Airbus
“If I had to bet, the larger part of the market will stay around
the A350-1000 or 777-300ER size category.”
“I think in the next couple of months we will know if we want to
do something."
Based on the article “Airbus eyes decision soon on bigger A350
jet” published in Reuters.
.Sensible answer, lets wait to see if there is a market for it!
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.In the forthcoming 1st. 6 months of 2016 Airbus has 24 A350's in the production run, 10 of which have delivery dates-if Airbus can deliver all 24 in those 6 months, excellent! That would be quite a ramp up averaging 4 per month! Fingers crossed.
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