Tuesday, October 11, 2016

380 : in an air hole, Airbus tries the fallback strategy – The Parisian

Reculer for better fly, this is the new strategy of Airbus for its A380. The aerospace firm has decided to reduce the production of its superjumbo due to lack of orders, informs Le Figaro on Tuesday, in the meantime a second youth.

starting this fall, due to a small failure of controls, the production of the A 380 will drop in frame rate to achieve a unit per month from 2018 (the minimum threshold for maintaining competence), as against 2.5 per month today. “This decision allows us to smooth out our deliveries, pending further orders “, explains Alain Flourens, head of the programme Has 380, in the Figaro.

It remained in effect, at the end of August 2016, 124 superjumbos to be delivered on the 319 machines ordered since its commercial launch in 2000 by ten-eight clients. The command of iran (twelve copies) waiting to obtain an export license to come to fruition, will not be sufficient to boost the backlog.

This year, Airbus will deliver 27 of 380, as much as in 2015. And three units less than at the peak of production, found that between 2012 and 2014. “We could develop other versions, but today the demand of companies focuses on the optimization of the existing aircraft. We will improve its productivity, by optimizing the booth and offering more flexibility and freedom in the development of it to our customers “, develops Alain Flourens, who wants to believe in the chances of its very large aircraft, which is unique by its qualities – a fuel consumption lower 40% than that of a Boeing 747 and can carry 525 to 850 passengers – but the development of which has cost 20 billion more than expected.

The division helicopters Airbus also suffers. due to the cancellation of an order of 50 aircraft Caracal, the management expects a social plan. 800 employees, over 8 000, would be threatened. The discussions of this contract to 2.4 billion euros, according to Paris, a total of 3.1 according to Warsaw, have been broken off at the end of last week. The Polish government has accused the european company of not having responded to the proposals in poland during negotiations on investments compensatory (offset) while a French source said that Airbus had been very far in its proposals, aligning offsets equivalent to 100% of the contract.


But upon his arrival to power in November 2015, the Polish government conservative had challenged the choice of his liberal predecessors in favour of Airbus, competitors who have factories based in Poland. However, this contract was a breath of oxygen for the branch helicopter to Airbus, which is suffering for the past two years by the weakness of the market for oil and gas offshore.

The group, which directly employs 140,000 people in the world, had hinted in September that he considered a plan of restructuring of magnitude.

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