News: Emirates cancel A340-600 order and say A380 is too heavy
Posted on Sunday, October 29 @ 16:35:00 GMT by darklord |
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Emirates, the largest Airbus A380 customer with 43 orders, announced Friday that the aircraft, which has a two years delivery delay, is 5.5 tonnes too heavy. Its Chairman Tim Clarke will send a team of 8 technicians to Airbus plants in Toulouse and Hamburg to evaluate the new delivery schedule. In another development, Emirates has cancelled an order for 10 A340-600s, considered as obsolete. In April the airline had already declared that it would delay the order in expectation for a version that would use less kerosene.
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