Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order
by Neracked on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:25AM
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The 16 Bi$ figure is for 36 aircrafts (including the 16 options) and means a price per unit of 445 Mi$. This is exactly the unit cost listed on Wikipedia. So we can assume the real price for the contract is lower.
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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order
by sho on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:20AM
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> So we can assume the real price for the contract is lower
Very much so. Common discounts for airframes can be 40-50%. Given the circumstances I'd assume Emirates got somewhere near 50; who knows. But both parties needed this deal and as other comments correctly point out the unusually public manoeuvring has been going on for months.
Of course, no-one in the media has any idea about this very closely guarded commercial information and so they simply go by the list price.