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Qantas To Delay Delivery of Airbus A380 Airplanes That It Has On Order
Qantas has announced it will delay the delivery of two of its Airbus A380 aircraft on order by at least four years and indicated that more delays or cancellations could happen. It announcing the decision,... (www.thefloridanewsjournal.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
From my point of view, it seems to me that Airbus products are always copies of Boeing's. Boeing is the trailblazer in this industry compared to Airbus. Boeing seems to me like the confident senior clansman and Airbus the junior trying to be like the big kids. Of course we can't quantify my opinion but this is my perception of the matter.
There is one area where Airbus broke new ground and "bested" Boeing and this is in the Super Jumbo arena. Airbus decided to make something bigger and better than the 747 which was in a class all by itself. Unfortunately, the A380 will go down as one of the biggest flops in modern business history. Am I speaking to soon? Where is my proof? Just wait and see. It doesn't matter what anyone's counter-argument will be. The A380 is too big, too problematic, and too ugly to be a success. The wing-cracks issue will be the final nail. The solution for Airbus? PULL THE PLUG. Cut your losses, cancel all remaining orders, refund the deposits. Divert your resources to other more promising avenues such as the A350 program. (Which of course is Airbus's response to the 787 Dreamliner. Remember what I said? Boeing leads, Airbus follows.) Who cares about losing face at this point? Get out and refocus.
Of course Boeing makes errors. Of course they aren't perfect, but my impression is that Boeing is a company made up of people who love aviation and building fine airplanes and Airbus is just a business looking to make money selling airplanes. Again, this is my perception and arguments aren't going to change that.
My advice to Germany? Get out. Build your own airplanes if you want to be successful. German engineering is spot on while the French are just plain quirky. Their styles don't match.
Just my 2 (or maybe more?) cents.
There is one area where Airbus broke new ground and "bested" Boeing and this is in the Super Jumbo arena. Airbus decided to make something bigger and better than the 747 which was in a class all by itself. Unfortunately, the A380 will go down as one of the biggest flops in modern business history. Am I speaking to soon? Where is my proof? Just wait and see. It doesn't matter what anyone's counter-argument will be. The A380 is too big, too problematic, and too ugly to be a success. The wing-cracks issue will be the final nail. The solution for Airbus? PULL THE PLUG. Cut your losses, cancel all remaining orders, refund the deposits. Divert your resources to other more promising avenues such as the A350 program. (Which of course is Airbus's response to the 787 Dreamliner. Remember what I said? Boeing leads, Airbus follows.) Who cares about losing face at this point? Get out and refocus.
Of course Boeing makes errors. Of course they aren't perfect, but my impression is that Boeing is a company made up of people who love aviation and building fine airplanes and Airbus is just a business looking to make money selling airplanes. Again, this is my perception and arguments aren't going to change that.
My advice to Germany? Get out. Build your own airplanes if you want to be successful. German engineering is spot on while the French are just plain quirky. Their styles don't match.
Just my 2 (or maybe more?) cents.
The A340 doesn't even cut it in these markets. Even though I like them for certain reasons, most 4-engine jets are economically passe'.
The A380 is quickly proving to be inefficient. In a market where the number of passengers is continuing to decrease, aircraft like the A340, A350, 777, and 787 are what's going to cut it. Airbus was being foolish when they designed the A380.
As far as Boing or Airbus being safer. Boeing has proven that their aircraft can withstand far greater G forces than any Airbus has. Look at the China Airlines flight in he 90s that was basically upside down for a short period of time but recovered and landed in Los Angeles with only a piece of the horizontal stab broken. Meanwhile Air France 447 flies through a thunderstorm and breaks up. Plastic and glue cannot hold a plane together, as Airbus has shown.
According to the preliminary reports, Air France 447 crashed due to an aerodynamic stall. That airplane only broke up when it smashed the water. Can a Boeing aircraft whithstand the G forces of a crash????
No that's true it cannot, however at the time there was an AD for the pitot tubes on the A330 which Air France had not done on that plane. As a result the pitot tubes iced up and caused incorrect airspeed readings and the pilots essentially oversped the aircraft and also seemingly made no attempt to avoid the thunderstorm straight ahead of them.
There is one area where Airbus broke new ground and "bested" Boeing and this is in the Super Jumbo arena. Airbus decided to make something bigger and better than the 747 which was in a class all by itself. Unfortunately, the A380 will go down as one of the biggest flops in modern business history. Am I speaking to soon? Where is my proof? Just wait and see. It doesn't matter what anyone's counter-argument will be. The A380 is too big, too problematic, and too ugly to be a success. The wing-cracks issue will be the final nail. The solution for Airbus? PULL THE PLUG. Cut your losses, cancel all remaining orders, refund the deposits. Divert your resources to other more promising avenues such as the A350 program. (Which of course is Airbus's response to the 787 Dreamliner. Remember what I said? Boeing leads, Airbus follows.) Who cares about losing face at this point? Get out and refocus.
Of course Boeing makes errors. Of course they aren't perfect, but my impression is that Boeing is a company made up of people who love aviation and building fine airplanes and Airbus is just a business looking to make money selling airplanes. Again, this is my perception and arguments aren't going to change that.
My advice to Germany? Get out. Build your own airplanes if you want to be successful. German engineering is spot on while the French are just plain quirky. Their styles don't match.
Just my 2 (or maybe more?) cents.