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Stormy Skies.Emirates Slams Airbus over A380 Defects
Spiegel online ^
| 03/16/2009
| Dinah Deckstein
Posted on 04/01/2009 6:15:10 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
Emirates has presented Airbus with a damning list of defects in the new A380 super-jumbo jet. The airline, which has ordered 58 of the aircraft, warns of a possible "loss of confidence" in the giant plane.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: a380; airbus; eads; europeanaerospace
On one of the slides, the experts provide a detailed list of the prestigious plane's various breakdowns. They say that the A380 has already been grounded nine times, which represented a loss of close to 500 operating hours. In 23 cases, say the Emirates managers, replacement aircraft had to be obtained at short notice. Minor glitches, the critique continues, happen in Emirates' A380 fleet about once every two days. In the medium term, the Emirates experts write, the airline could face the "threat of a loss of confidence in the aircraft and the brand image of the Emirates A380."
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