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Post by kevin5345179 on Jan 16, 2019 17:18:05 GMT 1
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Post by fanairbus on Jan 16, 2019 18:49:50 GMT 1
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Post by peter on Jan 16, 2019 19:32:51 GMT 1
On the productionline:
50034 and 55054
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Post by marlibu on Jan 17, 2019 6:58:15 GMT 1
i thought rate 10 was for 2025??? if market forces dictates??
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Post by kronus on Jan 17, 2019 7:31:04 GMT 1
Another analyse of ramp-up a220 production: Airbus thinks about stretched a220 version: |
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Post by Jkkw on Jan 17, 2019 9:23:15 GMT 1
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Post by fanairbus on Jan 17, 2019 11:14:29 GMT 1
A220-500. If this seated for instance 175-190 passengers, is this some subtle way of dropping the A319 and even in the long run the A320 leaving room for the new design single-aisle? In fact could it out-perform the A320? It would be interesting if so since there was so much made of the A320's fuselage diameter being a key to successful marketing and performance at the time. Discuss? (well I'd love it if you did!)
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Post by stealthmanbob on Jan 17, 2019 11:33:03 GMT 1
i thought rate 10 was for 2025??? if market forces dictates?? You are right, That's the correct time frame. |
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Post by philidor on Jan 17, 2019 11:37:47 GMT 1
i thought rate 10 was for 2025??? if market forces dictates?? Capacity of production is not the same as actual pace of production. Airbus intending to have the capacity to produce at a rate of ten per month as early as 2020 does not necessarily mean that full capacity will be immediately reached. Even though a rate of ten per month is much more than what we have been seeing, it is not extremely ambitious for a narrowbody (together, the FALs in Mirabel and Mobile could churn out A220s at a rate of fourteen per month). Airbus must ramp up very fast to drive the costs down. We can expect increased aggressivity in sales campaigns to support the increasing production rate. |
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Post by philidor on Jan 17, 2019 11:49:11 GMT 1
i thought rate 10 was for 2025??? if market forces dictates?? You are right, That's the correct time frame. I don't think so - the programme would have no future without major economies of scale. From the first Flightglobal story posted above by Kronus : "The Mobile facility will have capacity to complete four A220s monthly by the mid-2020s, at which time the Mirabel site will be capable of completing 10 aircraft monthly, Airbus says. At those rates, the two sites, combined, would complete 168 aircraft annually". Of course, there is no guarantee that both lines will be used at full capacity, but Airbus is pushing. From the same story : " 'This is a good product. To make it an economically viable product, it needs to be made at scale', says Airbus president of commercial aircraft Guillaume Faury. 'We believe Airbus has the potential… to create the scale'." EDIT : as pointed out by Stealthmanbob, Airbus' actual ramp up plans look rather conservative, since the cited rates are not to be reached before 2025 approximately. |
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