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Post by philidor on Apr 10, 2019 12:52:52 GMT 1
Why ? Did I miss something ? A post up thread that it's due for delivery in September 2019? Thank you !
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Post by philidor on Apr 10, 2019 12:50:24 GMT 1
A VIP fitout, including defensive aids for the first time on an A350 would surely take over a year by themselves ? ... Or more, in my opinion ...
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Post by philidor on Apr 10, 2019 12:47:12 GMT 1
I wasn't aware of that interesting project. Nice to see that ATR is moving on, though it cannot launch an entirely new programme.
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Post by philidor on Apr 10, 2019 12:43:02 GMT 1
I assume Trump does not care about the WTO. Well, the list we are discussing has been set up to implement WTO sanctions. You cannot both disregard the organisation and implement its decisions. My point just was that a airframe trade war would hurt the USA more than Europe. This is certainly not going to happen. The weakness of trade warriors is that their own manufacturers usually don't support a trade war. What may happen is some posturing followed by business as usual.
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Post by philidor on Apr 10, 2019 10:51:55 GMT 1
When a country complains to the WTO and wins, then it may be granted compensation in the form of a right to enforce additional tariffs on products imported from the 'guilty' (= losing) country. When the WTO gives that right to a country, then the only limit is a global maximum value, so that the country concerned can apply tariffs to any kind of goods.
To the best of my knowledge, the OMC so far hasn't allowed the USA to apply tariffs on European goods, nor has it allowed the EU to strike American goods. The cases aren't closed, yet.
For now the list disclosed by the USA is just political play by the US government. We'll have to wait for the next steps, and see, when both sides get condemned, whether they decide to apply duties or forget them reciprocally.
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Post by philidor on Apr 10, 2019 10:25:05 GMT 1
Thanks for the nice feedback/story philidor. I didn't know the A318 had engines problems and the wiki page doesn't mention it, what happened with them at the time?.. Mjoelnir provided the answer. Wikipedia tells the same story about the P&W 6000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_PW6000
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Post by philidor on Apr 10, 2019 10:12:30 GMT 1
Interesting that they mention part of the reason to include a sixth XL was to mitigate any shortfall in capacity if one is, to put it mildly, 'grounded'. I always wondered how Airbus would manage production if for some reason, a Beluga becomes non-operational. All types of aircraft are unavailable per schedule for maintenance, and occasionally for all sort of reasons. Airbus operation must have enough flexibility to allow for one unavailable Beluga, but two of them unavailable more than a week or two would probably wreak havoc. Having a brand new fleet increases reliability - nevertheless the number of Belugas must grow like aircraft production.
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Post by philidor on Apr 10, 2019 9:45:11 GMT 1
guess it will be taped and put into long term storage soon. Why ? Did I miss something ?
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Post by philidor on Apr 10, 2019 9:36:27 GMT 1
That's many Boeing widebody deliveries in March ! Narrowbodies, of course, are a different story ...
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Post by philidor on Apr 9, 2019 18:14:07 GMT 1
Did EY not cancel their 777X as reported ? I wonder why it hasn't show up in Boeing's O&D Obviously, no agreement has been signed yet, so that the matter remains as was ...
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