Airbus to stick with freighter version of A380

Bloomberg News
Published January 20, 2007
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TOULOUSE, France — Airbus SAS said Friday that it won’t drop its superjumbo freighter program even if it loses the last customer for the cargo version of the A380.

United Parcel Service Inc., which signed a contract for 10 A380 freighters in December 2005, is the last customer for the model, which Airbus planned to begin producing in 2010. A French newspaper said Friday that UPS might cancel its order as early as next week,

“We have no information about any cancellations,” said Airbus spokesman Justin Dubon. “Airbus sees that there’s a market for this type of aircraft, and we want to be in that market.”

UPS is “still studying the matter,” said Norman Black, a spokesman for the Atlanta-based company. “There has been no decision.”

The A380 program has been delayed at least two years because of wiring problems. FedEx Corp. canceled an order for 10 A380 freighters Nov. 7, and International Lease Finance Corp. dropped plans Dec. 4 to take five of the planes.

I hope Airbus sticks to its guns and doesnt cancel the programme. I can see the A380F being a success – even if not in this next decade – no other foreseeable aircraft will be able to offer the same capacity, and that is why I beleive that Fedex, having cancelled their A380 order, will, once the A380F is a reality, reorder the aircraft – the 777F being a stop gap short term solution to their needs. Fedex will be too tempted by the enormous capabilities of the aircraft to just ignore it.

One more from me; a technique that I have just learnt – the subject maybe slightly boring but I had nothing more interesting.

Can you tell I like taking pictures of the sky? 😀

Although Ive said this before, great stuff dude! Enjoy the forum!

Seems odd writing this reply, considering you’re sitting 3 metres from me in the next room. lol :p 😀

Tragic news:(

Half of our fence has been destroyed, and Ive seen pigeons nearly break the sound barrier. sucks to be a bird right now.

And also. All these “Low Cost first/buisness class ventures” going bust. There is no need for any of them. As being discused on a.net. MAXjet are dropping routes. For god sake(please excuss me) but why do we need 400(exagerating) 767s or 757s with 50-100 seats flying across the atlantic on the same routes. They are:-
NYC-LON(MAXjet, EOS, Silverjet, ICON, Privatair)
NYC-PARIS(l’avion)
MIAMI-LON(ICON)
and a few others

The only long haul low cost airlines i can see working are:-
Oasis hk
An airline based in Tokyo flying to Europe and the states
An airline based in India flying to the States and a few european destinations
Basically Asia on a whole.

Any comments people…?;) 😉 😉

the business class ventures are working at the moment because they are able to undercut the legacy carriers and provide business class services at lower prices than the traditional legacy carriers. on top of that, MAXjet and EOS fly into/out of Stansted which, to some business travellers is more appealing that the congested, stressful LHRs and LGWs of this world.

I can see those two airlines atleast continuing to operate for as long as they can provide cheaper high quality business class services.

:confused: so are you saying that we need to know a fair bit about a topic before we can reply? Besides, Indian culture isnt one of the easiest things to understand so its likely that not many people will know what that ”gold bit” was/is.

Anyway its only an opinion and if our younger members of 13/14 dont know what the gold bit is then they dont know what the gold bit is. . .

. . .im confusing myself now, so ill shut up lol 🙂

Yep, apparently, we should all have a vast, indepth knowledge before posting an opinion about a bit of paint.

Still don’t like it…the red is the wrong colour and the centaur (aka ‘bit of gold’) should be slightly higher.:diablo: :diablo:

plain and awful. they’ve even kept the silly design around the windows. The old one was better, and even that was boring.