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UPS reviewing Airbus order (www.joc.com)
Updated 4:43 p.m. ET, Mon Oct 23, 2006
As Airbus struggles with production delays, UPS has set up a team to evaluate its planned purchase of 10 A380 freighters.
On Oct. 4 Airbus announced a third delay to production of the superjumbo due to continuing problems with the plane's wiring. The program is now two years behind schedule.
Atlanta-based UPS has 10 A380s on order, worth more than $2.5 billion at list prices, with an option to buy 10 more.
The carrier said on Friday that it received official notification of the latest delay on Oct. 6, pushing back its first A380 delivery to May, 2010 from September, 2009.
Anybody wanna bet on a fourth delay? This aircraft should never have been built.
Updated 4:43 p.m. ET, Mon Oct 23, 2006
As Airbus struggles with production delays, UPS has set up a team to evaluate its planned purchase of 10 A380 freighters.
On Oct. 4 Airbus announced a third delay to production of the superjumbo due to continuing problems with the plane's wiring. The program is now two years behind schedule.
Atlanta-based UPS has 10 A380s on order, worth more than $2.5 billion at list prices, with an option to buy 10 more.
The carrier said on Friday that it received official notification of the latest delay on Oct. 6, pushing back its first A380 delivery to May, 2010 from September, 2009.
Anybody wanna bet on a fourth delay? This aircraft should never have been built.