Emirates Seeks Faster Airbus A350 Deliveries Amid Boeing Delays - Bloomberg
Gulf carrier Emirates said it’s in talks to take delivery of A350 wide-body jets ordered from Airbus SE over a shorter period amid continuing uncertainty around the handover of Boeing Co.’s delayed 777X model.
With the American plane now not due to commence deliveries until 2025, Dubai-based Emirates is looking to accelerate A350 arrivals once the first example from a 50-strong order is shipped, most likely in late summer 2024, Tim Clark, the airline’s president, said Monday in Doha.
“We’re talking to Airbus about compressing the delivery scale so we probably get up to two a month,” Clark said in a briefing at the International Air Transport Association’s annual meeting in the Qatari capital. “We’re trying to get this whole lot done in two years to pick up this big capacity.”
Boeing in April put back 777X deliveries to 2025, five years later than originally planned, and said it won’t resume production until 2023, prompting some plane-leasing firms to suggest that the future of the re-winged and re-engined evolution of the popular long-haul model is in doubt.
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