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Post by philidor on Feb 25, 2018 12:46:30 GMT 1
Airbus has completed a negociation with European governments to amend the conditions of A380 funding. The changes are said to be a consequence of disappointing sales. "A person familiar with the matter said there was no reduction of any outstanding capital owed to the governments. The talks were under way for more than a year, with Airbus pushing for options like converting royalty payments due with each delivery to a one-time fee, according to a separate person who was involved in earlier discussions and asked not to be named. Refundable advances from European governments finance Airbus research and development for certain projects on a risk-sharing basis. That means repayment is partly subject to the sales success of a program" www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-23/airbus-sheds-1-4-billion-owed-to-countries-in-new-a380-aid-dealThis agreement will certainly be painted by Boeing as granting Airbus more subsidies ...
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Post by philidor on Mar 6, 2018 18:17:04 GMT 1
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Post by XWB on Mar 6, 2018 18:25:31 GMT 1
What kind of services are we talking about?
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Post by philidor on Mar 6, 2018 20:16:05 GMT 1
What kind of services are we talking about? As you can see from the link, the nature of the services Airbus intends to offer is not substantiated. It must include MRO (Airbus, like Boeing, must be trying to 'steal' business from independant MRO operations), but there may be other offers. I think of Boeing's Total Care offer, which hasn't been a stellar commercial success so far.
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Post by airboche on Mar 7, 2018 11:56:36 GMT 1
That big expansion might attack the home business of some airline customers tech and maintenance divisions. I hope this doesn't backfire to lower sales. Imagine they will compete with big customers for third party businesses?
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Post by philidor on Mar 7, 2018 14:14:15 GMT 1
Exactly, Airboche, some of the largest existing MRO operations are owned by airline groups.
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Post by s543 on Mar 7, 2018 14:26:51 GMT 1
Exactly, Airboche, some of the largest existing MRO operations are owned by airline groups. Regrettably they are doing exactly the same Boeing announced
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Post by airboche on Mar 8, 2018 9:25:18 GMT 1
Pratically to me it looks more like a franchise concept. You licence an airline to service and repair your products in their hangars without getting involved with too much own manpower. Just taking your cut of their income. Let's see how this works.
On the other hand there is so much new business to take care of and after sales support is so profitable, they must not let this pass. This is why the big manufacturers are so motivated.
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Post by philidor on Mar 8, 2018 16:32:17 GMT 1
One very important aspect is parts selling price. Whoever orders them from the supplier takes a nice cut.
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Post by bmw801 on Mar 16, 2018 21:06:20 GMT 1
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