philidor
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Post by philidor on Jan 13, 2014 16:02:24 GMT 1
Yet, the forecast allows for some flexibility (somewhat less than 30 is not ruled out). Anyhow, the numbers are updated once a year at least.
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Post by FabienA380 on Jan 13, 2014 22:01:26 GMT 1
Airbus says to deliver A380s at a rate of almost 30 per year in the next four years. Would this mean that Airbus did manage to fill the unlocated slots for 2015? Fabien  |
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Post by addasih on Jan 13, 2014 23:18:38 GMT 1
Will think so
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Post by vlafollower on Jan 14, 2014 0:04:30 GMT 1
Airbus may be willing to do a few "white tails" and store them on the tarmac for a few months. Production rate of 30 per year is critical to their plans of reaching the break-even point and moving in to the profitability column. Monsieur Bregier alluded to the fact that it was going to be tight moving into profitability even with this production rate of 30/yr in 2015. I read this somewhere.
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philidor
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Post by philidor on Jan 14, 2014 0:22:33 GMT 1
Airbus may be willing to do a few "white tails" and store them on the tarmac for a few months. Production rate of 30 per year is critical to their plans of reaching the break-even point and moving in to the profitability column. Monsieur Bregier alluded to the fact that it was going to be tight moving into profitability even with this production rate of 30/yr in 2015. I read this somewhere. No white tail could, I think, be considered since there are too many A380 variants (different engines and weight options ... see the "A380 construction" thread). However, Airbus might start production of some frames more early than required by their agreed delivery date. The difference is that true white tails would not be tailored to a customer's specifications. In the past, it happened that EK took delivery of more frames than had been publically scheduled. Did this happen at Airbus' request ? |
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Post by addasih on Jan 14, 2014 0:54:47 GMT 1
I agree with philidor. It is hard and more cotly to have white tail |
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XWB
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Post by XWB on Jan 14, 2014 10:37:29 GMT 1
Bregier clearly said Airbus will not build whitetails.
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Post by vlafollower on Jan 15, 2014 0:54:54 GMT 1
I will phrase it differently - Airbus may be willing to increase their Work In Process Inventory to maintain an even production flow; How they stage that WIP inventory is certainly their call. Based on what I have heard and read they really want to get to that break-even point on the A380. Monsieur Bregier has said it is going to be tight getting their in Calendar and Fiscal Yr 2015.
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Post by vlafollower on Jan 15, 2014 0:56:05 GMT 1
Program Accounting is a whole different ball game!!
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Post by n830mh on Jan 22, 2014 22:00:23 GMT 1
Is EY still planned delivery in 2015?
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