France's
Zodiac Aerospace is behind schedule in supplying toilets for the Airbus A350.
Zodiac
is starting to slowly emerge from a year-long crisis over delays in production
of aircraft seats that disrupted some airplane deliveries.
The
same day but in a different place… Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders said the
planemaker may miss its target for 15 A350 deliveries this year because of
delays in receiving cabin fittings.
Zodiac
Aerospace CEO Olivier Zarrouati told analysts on a conference call that
resolving the delays in delivering onboard toilets would take only a "few
months".
Zodiac
said it was meanwhile ahead of schedule on deliveries of A350 electrical
systems.
Zodiac
has opened a new assembly line in Canada to support the production increase,
which includes plans for a quadrupling of output to 60 aircraft in 2016.
"We
are working very closely with Airbus to analyze our collective capacities to
support the assembly line," Zarrouati said.
"It
won't take as long to resolve as the seats...We are talking about a few
months," he added.
Zodiac
has announced a new reduction in the number of aircraft seats caught up by
recent production delays to 300 units from 500 in late November and 1,700 in
September.
Based
on the article “Zodiac facing delays in delivering A350 aircraft toilets”
published in Reuters.
At last its out, its Zodiac-didn't they see this coming years ago when all the orders were coming in? Seems a crazy way to run a business. They are in effect holding Airbus to ransom.
ReplyDeleteTime to look elsewhere for the future,all ones eggs in one basket is not wise.