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Betting on the long-ranger - A340 review
01 October 2006
Life at Airbus is getting worse, but does the European manufacturer have enough in its arsenal to see it through? Geoff Hearn reports.
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Life cannot be easy for Airbus employees. The departure of their chief executive officer Christian Streiff and the seizure of independence to a different management team have no doubt affected the medium. With further delays to the A340 on the cards, Airbus is likely to spend many weeks deciding how existing aircraft families can help to weather the storm. But even these aircraft have their challenges. The A340 has had a respectable sales record with 317 aircraft delivered to date, according to Avsoft's Acas database.
But the original, CFM56-powered members of the A340 family have had a mixed record. The A340-200 made little impact on the market, but the A340-300 has been more successful and continues to sell, albeit at a slow rate. The A340-200 was intended for airlines to open long-range routes between cities that previously needed intermediate stops. Although only a few A340-200s were built, the aircraft has...
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