Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
- Pontifications: Boeing needs massive reset, and not just with labor October 14, 2024
- How Boeing’s actions affect Products, Airbus: Analysis (Update) October 11, 2024
- Boeing Announces Preliminary Significant Q3 Loss: Cuts 767 Freighter Program, Delays 777X EIS, Major Layoffs October 11, 2024
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 28. Wrapup. October 11, 2024
- Boeing strike hits suppliers, Airbus steps in October 10, 2024
Breaking News: Airbus cuts A380 production rate to 1/mo from 2018
July 11, 2016: La Tribune of Paris just broke a report that Airbus will cut the production rate of the A380 to 1/mo in 2018.
LNC will follow shortly with our own coverage.
Wow! I know everyone has had their say on the A380 but this is a brutal cut in the production rate. Am guessing we are seeing more realism with regard to precisely what the backlog currently stands at and the desire to keep a line running with a view to NEO in 2020+. Looking at the production numbers going forward it is almost exclusively Emirates anyway.
A sad day for all passengers who value their comfort IMHO
Currently, the backlog is only 126 aircraft. Without the 20 Amedeo orders, the 6 Virgin orders and the 10 cancelled Hong Kong Airlines orders, there isn’t so many backlog left.