It's just the Beer talkin'

Turkishpress.com
A top American Airlines executive expressed doubts on the merits of Airbus A380, unveiled this week in France with great fanfare.

The world’s biggest jumbo jet to be produced by the European consortium “doesn’t really fit with the way we see the world market in the future,” said James Beer, chief financial officer of American Airlines parent AMR during a conference call.

The A380 superjumbo, which can carry up to 840 people on its two full decks, will overtake the 747 by US rival Boeing as the biggest civilian aircraft ever made.

Beer, who spoke during a conference call on the company’s fourth-quarter results, noted that American had deferred delivery on 54 aircraft from Boeing as a result of financial pressures.

Asked about the Boeing 7E7 “Dreamliner,” the US manufacturer’s smaller, more economical aircraft, Beer said the airline had no near-term plans to buy any but that it was “clearly a long-term possibility.”