From: "George Sherwood" 

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:58:33 +0100, Adam wrote:

> George Sherwood wrote:
>> Delay deliveries, lose orders and raise the price?  What are they thinking
>> at Airbus?
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5109146.stm
>>
>> Airbus has increased the sale price of its A380 superjumbo, whose problems
>> have triggered a management crisis at parent company EADS.
>>
>>
>> George
>
> Shrug. Teething troubles are common to a new design. Both the 707 & 747
> cut things fine.
>
> But they're cutting down the wake turbulence distances & the freight
> people (e.g. fedex) seem to love it.

Who can love something they haven't seen yet?  I haven't read anything like
the freight people love it.  Of course anything that will eventually hall
more cargo for less price is attractive to them, but with the limited
airports available to them it won't be a mainstay.  I also haven't seen
anything about ICAO cutting down the distances for wake turbulence. EADS is
saying they have the data to do that, but I was surprised that recently
ICAO let the distances stand as they were from the start.  How much has
EADS stock dropped in the last few weeks?

George

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