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Airbus celebrates delivery of its 9,000th aircraft
Airbus has celebrated the delivery of its 9000th aircraft at a ceremony in Hamburg, Germany on 20th March 2015. The aircraft is the first A321 to be delivered to Vietnamese carrier VietJetAir and will join the carrier’s all-Airbus A320 Family fleet flying on its fast-growing Asia-Pacific network. “The delivery of our 9000th aircraft comes as we enjoy ongoing strong demand for aircraft across our product line,” said John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers. “The range of aircraft we… (www.airbus.com) עוד...
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Doesn't mention fighters or helos
Leahy is boasting his boys have delivered less than a quarter of the planes taking up Tarmac made by his competitor.
Who knows how many he would have sent into the air if the central banks of the EU did not provide five years free financing?
Leahy's entire output is just a bit more then the numbers posted by just one model, the 737.
It is also laughable when he touts that he and Boeing delivered "about" 650 planes in 2014. He fails to mention Boeing delivered around 100 more than Airbus, 723 v. 629.
Who knows how many he would have sent into the air if the central banks of the EU did not provide five years free financing?
Leahy's entire output is just a bit more then the numbers posted by just one model, the 737.
It is also laughable when he touts that he and Boeing delivered "about" 650 planes in 2014. He fails to mention Boeing delivered around 100 more than Airbus, 723 v. 629.
Ric: Get off the Boeing bandwagon! The story is about Airbus.
OK, but then you should be fair if you're going to demand fairness from Airbus and bear in mind that Boeing has been delivering jetliners, among many other types, for far longer than Airbus, so the grand total of Airbus is quite naturally smaller than Boeing's grand total.
I am anything but an apologist for Airbus, but both the article and the criticism should compare apples with apples, such as annual production rates over a longer period than one year. It would also be fair to compare narrow-body output with narrow-body output and widebody with widebody.
It's meaningless, or even laughable, to quote someone, to compare the entire output of Airbus with the total 737 production. The early- and late-model 737s are really not the same aircraft and even if you insist they are, it's been in production longer than Airbus has been in existence. Or are you also surprised that Chevrolet has built more cars than Tesla?
I am anything but an apologist for Airbus, but both the article and the criticism should compare apples with apples, such as annual production rates over a longer period than one year. It would also be fair to compare narrow-body output with narrow-body output and widebody with widebody.
It's meaningless, or even laughable, to quote someone, to compare the entire output of Airbus with the total 737 production. The early- and late-model 737s are really not the same aircraft and even if you insist they are, it's been in production longer than Airbus has been in existence. Or are you also surprised that Chevrolet has built more cars than Tesla?
Well, a Chevy is a reasonably priced automobile that has enjoyed great success with a significant portion of the population, on the other hand Tesla is just a full featured golf cart for elitists.
No to mention comparison with the 16,00+ DC-3/C-47 frames built or the 14 Concorde frames.
