A380-MSN162 (EK #106 ex-BC #1) A6-EVB
Jul 6, 2014 10:09:59 GMT 1
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Post by philidor on Jul 6, 2014 10:09:59 GMT 1
I am amazed by some of the comments upthread, asserting that BC either does not want this aircraft type anymore or cannot finance it ! This is pure fantasy !
Have no doubt, BC has secured funding for its A380 purchases. At this stage, aircraft have been built, BC already has had huge progress payments be paid to Airbus, obviously by some banking institution, so definitely there is no funding problem. It is also too late to back out of the deal, BC would suffer huge losses. BC is not a bankrupt company, it is a going concern!
The frames cannot just be transferred to another buyer, they are reserved for BC, which has ordered them, and they are going to be stored until building can be resumed.
What has happened is a problem with some buyer furnished equipment (BFE), which can be long lead items. We don't know which equipment is concerned, but I am not surprised that a new supply takes several months ... This is unfortunate, but errors do happen (would you have believed the A380 programme could be endangered by wiring issues?).
I suppose BC hoped the problem could somehow be fixed without rejecting the supply (hence the transfer to XFW), but Airbus determined there was no way to do that safely (remember that sentence in BC's explanations).
Of course, Airbus is not going to comment on a customer's blunders ...
One point may have been omitted by BC, though : the delay may be useful to them, if they are struggling to get ready to start the A380 operation.
Have no doubt, BC has secured funding for its A380 purchases. At this stage, aircraft have been built, BC already has had huge progress payments be paid to Airbus, obviously by some banking institution, so definitely there is no funding problem. It is also too late to back out of the deal, BC would suffer huge losses. BC is not a bankrupt company, it is a going concern!
The frames cannot just be transferred to another buyer, they are reserved for BC, which has ordered them, and they are going to be stored until building can be resumed.
What has happened is a problem with some buyer furnished equipment (BFE), which can be long lead items. We don't know which equipment is concerned, but I am not surprised that a new supply takes several months ... This is unfortunate, but errors do happen (would you have believed the A380 programme could be endangered by wiring issues?).
I suppose BC hoped the problem could somehow be fixed without rejecting the supply (hence the transfer to XFW), but Airbus determined there was no way to do that safely (remember that sentence in BC's explanations).
Of course, Airbus is not going to comment on a customer's blunders ...
One point may have been omitted by BC, though : the delay may be useful to them, if they are struggling to get ready to start the A380 operation.
