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RE: BA's 777-300ER acquisition does not rule out A350: Walsh

Last post 01-14-2009 6:10 AM by claes. 1 replies.
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  • 01-14-2009 6:00 AM

    RE: BA's 777-300ER acquisition does not rule out A350: Walsh

    Flightglobal:
    British Airways is still considering the Airbus A350 XWB as part of its 'big twin' fleet evaluation, stressing that its Boeing 777-300ER acquisition is not......

    Author: David Kaminski-Morrow

    Date: 12 January 2009

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  • 01-14-2009 6:10 AM In reply to

    • claes
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    BA's 777-300ER vs A350:

    The logical replacement for 747-400's are A380's and 777-300ER's today.

    You have to wait a long time for the A350-1000 that is still a paper plane and to be sure of its payload/range before buying them as replacements for the older 777-200's.

    The 767 replacement is already done with 787's once they get everything in order and Boeing hopefully make a profit delivering them at the agreed price, that might not be so easy.

    Airbus could do a mid-life update on the A330 putting on the GEnx engines and shutting down the A340 line as the 4 RR engines makes the plane uncompetetive with the 2 mighty GE90-115B's, unless GE can deliver 4 747-8I type GEnx to the A340-600 with power by the hour for less cost than 2 GE90's operating on the 777-300ER.

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