Spectacular September sales for Airbus (NOT !)

[JF Mezei]

In September 2009, Airbus racked up a whopping sales for two, yes, 2 new
aircraft. And it got 4 cancellations for a total net orders of minus 2
aircraft !

So far:

Airbus has 149 gross orders, 123 net orders this year.
Boeing has 170 gross orders, 79 net orders this years.

Apparently, 787 cancellations count for a lot of roughly 90
cancellations at Boeing.

Also, in case you didn't read about it. Singapore pushed back a 380
delivery from december 2009 to sometimes in january 2010. This will
reduce Airbus' total A380 numbers for 2009 down to 13.

Airbus has so far delivered 6 380s this year, and to reach 13, it would
have to deliver 7 in the next couple of months. Looks to me like the
Singapore "deal" may be spin for "Airbus can't meet its target for 2009
and there are delays in production". I have to wonder if delivering 7
A380s in 3 months is realistic.

I had read something a number of weeks ago that Airbus was only now
starting to put the 380 into "production mode" (I think they called it
phase II automation). A lot of the wiring is still apparently still
handmade in toulouse instead of using the german sites and that is about
to be fixed.
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