Posted on 08/07/2005 4:29:08 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
In the US house of representatives on a law one works, which prescribes an anti-missile defense system for all "jets with more than 800 seats". World-wide gives exactly one airplane, which fulfills this criterion: the A380. Meanwhile Singapore criticized airlines that the distribution of the new superairbus retards.
Hamburg - in the competition with the European airplane manufacturer airbus can rely the US competitor Boeing after a report MIRRORS on support from the American parliament. The chairman in the aviation committee of the house of representatives, John Mica, started a legislative initiative, which aims alone at the airbus A380, which is installed in Toulouse and in Hamburg its interior equipment receives: New jets "with a maximum passenger capacity of at least 800 seats" or a take-off weight of at least 450 tons would have to be equipped after these Lex A380 with protective systems against portable air defense rockets.
The regulation is to become effective at the latest two years after permission of such protective systems by the US aviation authority FAA. It would alone concern the new superairbus, which Mica a "irresistible goal for terrorists" called. The past jumbo jet jets of Boeing remain under the borders.
On behalf of the US government Northrop Grumman, like military protective systems, examines about lasers, for the diversion of warm-looking for rocket heads into civilian air liners to be scaffolded could. The arms ruestungsschmiede had supported Mica with election campaign donations. The procedure reminds of times, since US authorities wanted to forbid for noise protection reasons the approach to the European supersonic flier "Concorde" on New York.
Annoyance threatens the airbus company also from Asia. The airline Singapore airlines (SIA) showed up in the weekend extremely annoyed that the distribution of the airbus superjumbo jet A380 retards around presumably eight months. "I would have wished myself, said more honesty" SIA boss Choon Seng Chew in an interview. Singapore airlines is the first airline, which wants to use the largest passagierflugzeug of the world commercially. "airbus used rather for a long time, in order to admit that the A380-Programm lags behind, said to the schedule" the boss the magazine "focus".
After the words of the SIA boss the European aircraft manufacturer can deliver the first machines instead of in March 2006 only at the end of November 2006. The late supply "disturbs our capacity planning enormously", said Chew. Like that all plans for the training of pilots, hostesses and technicians are and the SIA older Boeing 747-400 from traffic to pull wanted. "fly now longer", said Chew.
To the question about consequences it answered: "I am a respectable customer. And I would like to believe further that airbus is a respectable enterprise. It is, airbus wants to me to signal that I am not to buy not one airplane with them more." Furthermore Chew pointed out that the SIA is entitled after the clauses of a contract a remuneration. "it is as during a taxi travel: The longer the travel, the more expensively. Each further month delay becomes more expensive for airbus ", said the enterprise boss.
DIRCM
In the software industry, promoting and selling a product you don't already have available is known as vaporware. I wonder what they call it in the airline industry...retards?
This is simply stupid. The republicans are leading this? I'll have to add this to a "stupid republican" list.
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