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By Bjorn Fehrm
January 21, 2020, © Leeham News: Before the holidays, we started a series to look into Airbus’ A350 family. We analyzed the development program and how the variants have sold.
Initially, the A350-800 won about 180 orders. But as the market received more information about the smaller variant, the more it realized it wasn't an optimal airplane. It was never officially canceled. But orders was up-gauged to the A350-900. Airbus decided the variant wasn’t competitive and developed the A330neo instead. We now look into why.
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Category: Airbus, Boeing, Dreamliner, GE Aviation, Premium, Rolls-Royce
Tags: 787-9, A330, A330neo, A350-800, A350-900, Airbus, Boeing