Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order

Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by baud147258 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @08:55AM (#16177013)

didn't Airbus took recently a stake in Bombardier for their latest twin-engine plane? So maybe they've came to the same conclusion too.

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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by gsnedders on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:25AM (#16177748)

The C-Series? The largest C-Series, the CS300, is comparable in size to Airbus's smallest model, the A319neo (okay, I think theoretically the A318 is still available, but it's not had a single order in years).

This is about wide-body twins taking over from where quad jets (and a few trijets) have traditionally ruled.

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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by skgoa on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:53PM (#16179418)

The A318 is officially not available anymore. There is no NEO version and they are not even selling the CEO.

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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by gsnedders on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:21PM (#16181583)

I knew there was no NEO version, but I hadn't realised they'd stopped selling the CEO (given, AFAIK, they're still taking CEO orders for the other family members).

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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by skgoa on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:24AM (#16185246)

They are selling the last remaining CEO production slots. They are mostly doing it by giving steep discounts on those planes for airlines that buy large numbers of NEOs. However they do not offer the 318ceo as an option to fill those slots, only the 319, 320 and 321.

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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by baud147258 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:49AM (#16177969)

The CS300 was what I was talking about. And apparently I was wrong, thank you for your correction.

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