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Boeing Halts 787 Production Line For 1 Month
While the company will not comment on any impact to downstream deliveries, Boeing plans to update to its 2011 delivery guidance on during its July 27 second quarter earnings call. The hold leaves unaffected the August or September first 787 delivery to All Nippon Airways and the company maintains its short and long-term plans to ramp the 787 production line remain unchanged, with plans to advance from two to 2.5 aircraft per month later this summer and 10 per month by the end of 2013. (www.flightglobal.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Yes chalet the contract covered the propulsion units only. For the life of the airframe the engines will cost JetBlue zero only normal wear and and top up oil air funded by JetBlue. If an engine fails and an aircraft is out os service the JeBlue also gets a "down time payment" for loss of revenue. And of course all air strikes are covered. This contract applies the the A320s only. Do JetBlue have few A330s? The contract I saw was specifically for the A320s. Yes I see your point with the airframes. The A320 engine cowl latches, the Airbus part, has proved difficult to secure in service and no less than seven design revisions have been issued for this fault. While there is not a contract per se regarding the airframe please remember that in law, the airframe must be fit for the purpose. The planes cannot fly if the engine cowls cannot be made fast, which is the Airbus responsibility.
@ Roland Dent you said in a previous entry that yo have read the contract between JetBlue and Airbus and that the latter would replace engines at not cost, inferring that they gave away the store. This is a little different from what I was told: first of all there are always two separate contracts, one with the airframe manufacturer and another one with the engine maker in this case International Aero Engines covering the V2527-A5 jet engines for the JetBlue 30s, furthermore IAE is the one which out of desperation as they can not cause even a dent to CFM whose Mod. 56 engines outsell them like 200 to 1 or even worse propelling 737s and 320s, etc. all over the map, had no choice but "selling" the engines at cut throat prices and guaranteeing anything and everything. Therefore Airbus did not guarantee anything related to the engines other than if the engines run, the planes will fly.
honza: thanks for that. Yes I see your point very well. Communications between operators, both formal and informal communications, is better than 20 years ago by way of the internet and sites like this and others. Ryan air sold its first batch of 73s for more than they had paid brand new. Try Air Berlin next time you are in Europe.
Roland: google wikipedia + 737 + crash + 585 + Colorado; plus the same with USAirways 427 + Pittsburgh....and shiver: a design flaw of a single part and next....shiver
I agree on the French political side, I dislike that too
Ryanair I also never fly when in Europe, Easy Jet and Wizz Air are discounts as well but there I at least feel treated as a valuable customer still...(don't know if it is coïncidence but both fly airbus....:) )
I agree on the French political side, I dislike that too
Ryanair I also never fly when in Europe, Easy Jet and Wizz Air are discounts as well but there I at least feel treated as a valuable customer still...(don't know if it is coïncidence but both fly airbus....:) )
The Chinese certainly are a big factor YES. I would rather walk than ride on Ryanair. I am getting on in age a little, and I don't like narrow exit steps that fold out onto an acre of tarmac in the middle of nowhere. People often fall off these steps, and I hate heights with no guard rails. There are much better airlines, better value too. Lets just see how Ryanair get along with their business in the next 5 years.
honza i don't know about the two incidences you describe with the two 73s in the USA, I am Europe based by the way, but I do know that Air France was already concerned before they lost all over the S Atlantic. Again we are looking at a national carrier with political ties that over rule engineers. I have a personal way of dealing with business managers who seek to put life and limb at risk which involves their own personal limbs. God was good to me in that way, I sand 6ft 5 tall and I love small closets. If Boeing has lost focus I am sad. You are incorrect in thinging that Airbus know how "to handle" culture differences. Good managers leave Airbus. The manager of the A380 line at Toulouse left within a month of being told he had to roll back his schedule as Rolls Royce scavenged every engine T900 he had on the line to replace the T972s. Well there are other reasons why the current 737NGs are not suitable beyond an 8 years life. This involves shy fits on the chords on the fuselage from a certain sub contarctor. Inherently a bunch of NG737s are weak, and no one knows which bunch. No. Boeing knows that the C checks WILL throw up liabilities on these airframes, and it will have to face in the next 8 years a lot of remedial repairs. I remember the accident in Holland and at that time I believe there were three on the flight deck.