Re: Aviation Week agrees with Stinky Pete.

[Andrew McCruden]

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"Stinky Pete" > wrote in message
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> Check out the Jan 19th issue of Aviation Week. In there they make a solid
> case that the fragmentation of air routes has already started. This
clearly
> favors the long term propects of the Boeing 7E7 over the Airbus A380.
>
> As they point out, the trend is towards fewer seats.
>
> They ask the question...if Airlines are parking their 747's and replacing
> them with smaller aircraft such as the 777, why would they want the A380?
> It's going in the wrong direction.
>
> The compelling business case is for the 7E7, not the A380.

Not nessecarily defending the A380 here but isn't AvLeek overwhelmingly
aimed at the _US_ Aviation/Airline Industry members market? I don't think
anyone really expected to sell larger than 747 aircraft to US Airlines after
about 1980 or so, I always got the Impression that the Target market was
mostly Middle/Far East

Fot that matter I don't think Airbus is proposing to stop offering A330's
and 340's....

[Christophe Chazot]

Totally off-topic, sorry...

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> Not nessecarily defending the A380 here but isn't AvLeek overwhelmingly
> aimed at the _US_ Aviation/Airline Industry members market? I don't think
> anyone really expected to sell larger than 747 aircraft to US Airlines
after
> about 1980 or so, I always got the Impression that the Target market was
> mostly Middle/Far East
>
> Fot that matter I don't think Airbus is proposing to stop offering A330's
> and 340's....
>
>

During years, Airbus has claimed that the main commercial advantage of
Boeing was its ability to offer a full span of aircraft sizes, from
commuters to Jumbos, with a global and unique maintenance service, and that
the air companies did prefer outsourcing their maintenance to a unique
partner. Airbus said that this was the reason why it HAD to build the A-380,
to complete its panel of aircraft. Without a Jumbo-size plane, Airbus was
told that Boeing was preferable.
If this policy is still in force, I can't see why Airbus would stop the
production of any size of aircraft. This would make a hole in their product
range.

Yours
Chistophe
(not a specialist in civil aviation, BTW)