European planemaker Airbus suffered a fresh setback to its largest twin-engined jet development, the A350-1000, when it emerged that Gulf carrier Etihad had cancelled seven aircraft worth $2.3 billion at current list
prices.
The Abu Dhabi-based airline has now halved its order for the 350-seat jet in four months from 25 in November to 12 at the end of April, Airbus monthly figures showed on Monday.
Airbus has not sold any of the largest variant of its next-generation A350 since beefing up the design with bigger
Rolls-Royce engines last June, while Boeing has been notching up record orders of the wide-body 777.
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