Emirates cancels A346

A346’s would be taken up by Phillipine airlines order for some long range jets

That PAL order was miniscule as compared to the no. of jets that EK had on order . What could have happened was that EK asked Airbus to back off on the Cancellation clause from the 340 deal to compensate for the 380 delays !!

I think they (airbus) were hoping that the A346’s would be taken up by Phillipine airlines order for some long range jets, but Flight International has said almost definetly that they will take 777-300ERs instead.

Since when do airbus ever show cancellations on their site ?

You got me there!! Airbus doesnt show cancellation in their orders sheet. Although in this case i do genuinly beleive that EK have buyers who are willing to pick the jets

Crains Chicago Business
Oct. 30, 2006

(AP) — Dubai’s Emirates Airline said it is canceling an order for 10 large jetliners from Airbus and will use Boeing Co. models instead, according to a published report Sunday.
Speaking to reporters at London’s Heathrow Airport, Emirates President Tim Clark said his airline won’t take the Airbus A340-600 jetliners it had ordered and is sending auditors to assess the European plane maker’s progress on building its A380 superjumbo, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site.

Emirates will instead order 777 models from Chicago-based Boeing, Emirates Executive Vice Chairman Maurice Flanagan said, the Journal reported.

The switch — which follows Clark’s complaints last year about the high operating cost of the A340 family of planes — shows how Boeing is benefiting from troubles at Airbus, a unit of Franco-German European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co., the paper said.

The Emirates order for 10 A340-600 jetliners had a catalog value of $2.25 billion, according to the newspaper.

Airbus spokeswoman Barbara Kracht said she had no information about cancellations, the Journal reported.

Clark also said Emirates is interested in acquiring proposed passenger versions of Boeing’s planned 747-8 jetliner, an update of the four-engine model introduced in 1969. Emirates would only do so if Boeing stretches the design a bit to increase seating capacity, Clark said, according to the newspaper. In July, the carrier ordered 10 of the cargo version of the 747-8.

The 747 is Boeing’s largest aircraft and competes to some extent with the A380, Airbus’s jumbo jet in production.

Clark also said Emirates will send engineers to check on A380 production plants in France and Germany. The engineers will examine how Airbus managers are resolving industrial problems that have pushed production of the world’s largest passenger plane two years behind schedule and more than one-third over its original $12 billion budget, the paper said.

Emirates is the leading customer for the two-deck jetliner, accounting for 43 of the 159 superjumbos Airbus has on firm order, the Journal reported.

http://www.komotv.com/news/4514286.html

They had called it more then a month ago but said that the deal will go through as they had found new takers for the jets therefore it never showed up as a cancellation on the airbus’s site . I still think that the customers exist and it will be simple trade of slots and deliveries . EK have committed to the 777 as they are on record of saying that it is generating them tremendous profit and is performing better then what boeing had promised them.

Since when do airbus ever show cancellations on their site ? :diablo:

They had called it more then a month ago but said that the deal will go through as they had found new takers for the jets therefore it never showed up as a cancellation on the airbus’s site . I still think that the customers exist and it will be simple trade of slots and deliveries . EK have committed to the 777 as they are on record of saying that it is generating them tremendous profit and is performing better then what boeing had promised them.

I thought they did this a week or so ago. As they ordered 773ERS in stead.