US Air orders 20 A350s...

[Hamburgler]

A vs. B shennanigins continue, interesting about the financing aspect...

Airbus announces order by US Airways for 20 A350s
THE NEWS TRIBUNE (WA)
Published: November 30th, 2005 02:30 AM
US Airways Group Inc. has ordered 20 Airbus A350s, honoring its promise to buy the fuel-efficient aircraft aimed at trans-Atlantic flights as part of a financing deal for the airline’s acquisition by America West Airlines.

Airbus announced the binding order Tuesday. At list price, the 20 planes would be worth an estimated $4 billion, but buyers of multiple planes often get discounts.

The European aircraft maker provided financing to help America West Holdings Corp. complete its purchase of US Airways, a deal closed in late September. As part of that deal, the airline agreed to buy the 20 Airbus A350s, designed to compete with Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.

 

[Always deferred]

http://www.airbus.com/en/presscentre/pressreleases/pressreleases_items/11_29_05_USAirways_A350.html

 

[Hamburgler]

In other news...

Boeing Delivers First Longer-Range 777-300ER To Air France
Enhancements Should Save 200,000 Gallons Of Fuel Annually

Boeing told Aero-News Tuesday the company has delivered to Air France the first Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) airplane that includes enhancements that improve the overall fuel efficiency of the 777-300ER by 1.4 percent. This amount is in addition to the 2 percent fuel-burn improvement already proven in revenue service by the airlines that operate the 777-300ER.

"With fuel prices skyrocketing, we are excited that we were able to enhance the 777-300ER jetliner so it burns less fuel," said Lars Andersen, vice president for Boeing's 777 program. "Boeing took the initiative to make these changes based on discussions we had with our customers. I'm pleased that our largest 777-300ER operator, Air France, who was instrumental in working together with Boeing to help us make the airplane a reality, is the first to receive this new and improved 777-300ER.

According to Boeing, the anticipated 1.4 percent improvement in fuel efficiency on this airplane equates to an annual jet-fuel savings of approximately 200,000 gallons. The additional efficiency was brought about by a number of factors:

GE Aircraft Engines modified its powerful GE90-115B engines.

Boeing engineers reduced the airplane's drag by modifying the airplane's vortex generators, as well as redesigning the aircraft's air induction systems for the environmental control systems.

Several weight-reduction improvements were incorporated to the airplane's internal structure, including lighter environmental control-system ducts and main-deck floor panels.

All future 777-300ERs delivered to customers will include these enhancements, and Boeing has plans to incorporate these changes into the 27 777-300ERs currently in service.

 

[RP 04]

at least we have some foreign airlines buying american made airframes.

 

[Hamburgler]

Yup. I think it's totally important to keep support that trend on our end too - the global economy isn't going away! There are so many more international orders with China and other transitioning markets exploding, etc. US needs to keep it's options open so other countries do the same for Boeing.

 

[Boeingman]

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[ex j-41]

Air Canada flys Embraer

Same goes for Canada.

Best product wins.....
(Or the product with the best goverment subsidies)

 

[Remington]

How is this possible? That is the problem with airlines. They are broke, bleading money, bankrupt, and ordering billions of dollars worth of planes? What a joke. Who's paying for these airplanes, the tax payers?

 

[Doug Parker]

US Airways Group Inc. has ordered 20 Airbus A350s, honoring its promise to buy the fuel-efficient aircraft aimed at trans-Atlantic flights as part of a financing deal for the airline’s acquisition BY America West Airlines.







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[Crzipilot]

US Airways Group Inc. has ordered 20 Airbus A350s, honoring its promise to buy the fuel-efficient aircraft aimed at trans-Atlantic flights as part of a financing deal for the airline’s acquisition BY America West Airlines.
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Instead of quoting something from the news paper, why don't you quote from the US publication "About US" Interesting answer to the same thing...

Q. I’m an AWA employee and as we integrate
seniority lists, the AWA employees are going to be
worse off. Why does this have to be when clearly
it wasn’t AWA that needed the merger in order
to survive?​

A. We’ve not said this as direct as we’re about
to say here, but the reality for the AWA side is
we did need this merger. Any good business is
always looking out into the future, and when
we looked out at our future, what we saw wasn’t
good. Assuming fuel costs continued to rise,
capacity didn’t come out of the system and
thus unit revenues remained depressed, and
assuming we couldn’t go out and restructure
or raise cash, it is possible that AWA would
have been facing its own Chapter 11 at some
point. Employees may like to think we “saved”
US but the fact is we saved each other. We are
stronger together than either would have been
apart. And now with other airlines in Chapter
11 and headed to the same unit costs that we
have, we need to channel our energy on beating
the competition, not beating up each other. We
are all on the same team now and have to find
a way to work together for all of our collective
futures.​

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