Emirates : EK : UAE

• le MoU pourrait être réajusté, pour s'appliquer à, par exemple, une commande de 12 à 15 ou 15 à 18 x A380 (avec la flexibilité intrinsèque à l'accord, offrant la conversion d'A380-800 en A380-900 (en optant pour une motorisation RR) ;
  
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• ensuite, Emirates pourrait s'engager sur une acquisition de B787-10 ou -10X, toujours avec RR comme motoriste avec son RR Trent 1000 dans la version "évoluée", évoquée par Mark KING, et dont nous pourrions avoir des nouvelles, après le vol du RR Trent XWB-900 sur FTB A380-800 ; si, si, .... RR, parce que, si Tim CLARK est constant dans ses pleurs pour la "engine commonality" / 'communauté-moteurs' c'est surtout RR qui pourra continuer à observer les notions de "design" et de construction d'un moteur à partir d'un "same bill of material", et avec "commonality" à travers toute la famille des moteurs concernés, en observant les réglages de poussée stipulés par le(s) cahier(s) des charges ;
  
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• contrairement à la facilité avec laquelle il est plutôt largement dit que RR pourrait répondre à toutes les demandes et stipulations de Boeing, dans ce contexte (dès que Boeing les publiera), des personnes proches du 'dossier' restent dubitatifs au sujet des solutions que GE pourra offrir avec son GEnx actuel, et se demandent même si GE n'aura pas à faire un nouveau moteur du type GEnx, doté d'un "core" plus grand, et, sans doute, avec un système de soufflante modifié.
  

Jeannot a écrit:Conviasa va ajouer 6 Embraer et 4 A340-500 à sa flotte

Chavez: Venezuela to buy Embraer, Airbus jets
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his government plans to buy new Embraer jets from Brazil as well as used Airbus jets to expand his country's state airline Conviasa.

Chavez said Venezuela will negotiate credit with the Brazilian Development Bank to buy up to 20 Embraer jets from Brazil.

Chavez thanked Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff "for the credit they're going to give us." He said the estimated cost of 20 jets would be $814 million.

The Venezuelan government had said earlier this month that Chavez approved plans to buy six Embraer jets. But during Chavez's Sunday television and radio program, Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez laid out the options of buying either 10 or 20 Embraer jets.

"It's enough to see Venezuela's location on the map to conclude on the pressing need for us to have a very powerful airline," Chavez said.

Chavez's government has subsidized Conviasa since its launch in 2004. The president on Sunday did not provide information about how much the government has spent on the airline in recent years.

According to Conviasa's website, it currently has a fleet of 18 planes. In addition to domestic routes, Conviasa has international flights to cities including Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Damascus, Syria, among others.

Chavez also said Venezuela will buy four used Airbus 340-500 jets from an airline in the United Arab Emirates at a cost of about $60 million per plane.

Bolivian President Evo Morales, a Chavez ally, has announced similar plans to expand his country's state airline, Boliviana de Aviacion, or BoA.

Morales last month proposed to buy six Embraer 190 jets during a meeting with Rousseff in Caracas.

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Emirates has urged Boeing to make up its mind quickly on plans for an enhanced version of the wide-body 777, predicting it would be a success in the market.

Emirates' president Tim Clark also warned Boeing rival Airbus not to let the A350 jet run up three years of development delays, similar to those seen on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.

"The 777 and its derivative is of great interest to us because we started taking the 777-300ERs in 2005 and they will start retiring in a 12 year period," Clark said.

Pourquoi Boeing éviterait-il ce qui est arrivé à Airbus ? Surtout quand on voit le bide commercial qu'est le B747-8I ? !

Boeing is considering a refresh of its 777 with new wings and new engines to enter service near the end of the decade.

Clark said Boeing was "nearly there" in terms of what Emirates expected from the revamped 777.

"We've been working with them for quite a long time and are a little bit exasperated by the time it’s taking".

"My view is that a significant number of carriers will sign up for this airplane."

Mais Boeing se fiche pas mal du point de vue personnel de Tim CLARK !

He said Boeing was having difficulties in trying to work out the recurring costs.

"I believe the demand is there. Anybody who has a 777 today of size of ER will be automatically interested in its derivative."

Clark gave a lukewarm response to Airbus's decision last year to beef up the A350-1000 variant with bigger engines and more range, while pushing its development back two years.

"Well, I'm just saying we are watching it very closely. We don't want to get caught in the same way as the 787s... we can't afford a three year delay on this," said Clark.

"We went to the A350 because they sized it to the level we needed it to be."

Emirates has 20 A350-1000s on order.

Airbus pushed back development of the stretched A350-1000 by two years when it decided to overhaul the design last year. The USD$320 million jet is now due to enter service in mid-2017.

Airbus suffered a setback last week when Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways halved its order for the A350-1000 over four months, dropping to 12 in April from 25 in November.

Airbus has not sold any of the largest variant of its next-generation A350 since updating the design with bigger Rolls-Royce engines last June, while Boeing has been notching up orders for the wide-body 777.

Airbus says it is confident a market will flourish for the long-distance jet and has said its only difficulty is the shortage of available delivery slots before 2018 or 2019.

"It's up to them (Airbus) to deliver the airplane to the specification that we have contracted... and that's what we continue to watch," said Clark.

Emirates Airline (EK) has signed a sale and leaseback contract with GE Capital Aviation Services for three Boeing 777-300ERs, plus seven spare engines.

The first aircraft was delivered May 30. The remaining two are scheduled to be delivered later this year.

The deal for the engines – four GE Aviation GE90s and three GP7200s – was completed in June,but has only now been announced.

EK is the world’s largest operator of the 777.

In November 2011, EK and GE Aviation signed an agreement in which the engine manufacturerwill oversee the design and construction of the carrier’s new engine overhaul shop.

The facility is expected to be operational by the fourth quarter of 2014 and capable of performing300 engine repairs per year on GE90 and GP7000 engines that power the Boeing 777 and Airbus A380 respectively.

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Major Boeing customers say the jet maker has tapped the brakes on its plan to develop a new version of its star widebody jet, the 777, a plane that Washington state's aerospace industry dearly wants to see built here.

"If Boeing doesn't do anything, the A350 will kill the 777. Period. Everybody knows that", said one major Middle Eastern airline executive who is a top 777 customer, speaking on condition of anonymity.

New Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Ray Conner repeatedly declined to provide specific timing for putting the 777X before Boeing's board.

"We're not backing away," Conner insisted in London. "When we get the airplane right, that's when we'll go forward."

Tim Clark, president of giant Middle Eastern carrier Emirates, the largest operator of 777s in the world, said in an interview this month that at a lunch with Boeing's top leadership at Farnborough, he unleashed his fury at Boeing's procrastination in a candid talk with CEO Jim McNerney, Conner and a Boeing board member.

("I barely escaped with my life," McNerney exaggeratedly told the trade magazine Aviation Week after the tongue-lashing from Clark.)

The other Middle Eastern airline executive said he has seen "a slowing down in 777X." He believes it's a matter of engineering and material resources as well as Boeing's cash limits.

Boeing cannot afford to procrastinate too long, this executive said, because Airbus is scheduled to bring out its all-carbon-fiber composite A350-1000 in 2017.

As Boeing weighs what to do and when to move, its board and corporate management must pay attention to the concerns of large shareholders.

In a statement responding to inquiries about the program, Boeing said it remains committed to the 777X.

"When we are confident in a plan we can deliver to our customers, we would formally launch the program following additional development work," the statement said.

Still, key customer Clark, of Emirates, cannot contain his impatience.

Clark said Conner has told him that interest from airlines in the 777X is already such that he could probably announce orders for 150 to 200 planes "straight away" if he chose to launch now.

"If they launch, Emirates will step up," said Clark. "Ray knows that."

Clark said he needs replacement aircraft for his older 777s starting in 2017. He wants the 777X by 2019.

By then, Clark said, Emirates will have a fleet of more than 250 widebody jets, and will be "the largest carrier in the world by a long way."

He said Emirates will be "an entity that has to be reckoned with ... They would be foolish to ignore what we have asked for."

If Boeing pushes the entry into service of the 777X out into 2022, Clark said, "we'll look elsewhere."

Emirates Airline President Tim Clark says the carrier’s current order for the Airbus A350-1000 is “in limbo at the moment,” but he is not ready to step back from it.

The aircraft is “overweight and late,” Clark tells Aviation Week.

“Let’s just see what she is like when she flies,” he adds. “At the moment there are issues.”

Rolls Royce wins $2.2 billion Emirates contract

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February 14, 2011|Simon Kennedy

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Rolls-Royce Group PLC said Monday that it has won a $2.2 billion long-term services contract from airline Emirates that covers Trent engines for 70 Airbus A350XWB aircraft. The agreement comes two month after Rolls-Royce won a $1.2 billion services contract for Trent 700 engines powering 27 Airbus A330s and Trent 800 engines powering 21 Boeing 777s.

Emirates has placed orders for 50 A350-900s and 20 A350-1000s. Airbus has delayed the -1000’s entry-into-service of the -1000 by about two years to 2017, much to the chagrin of Middle East airlines, such as Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways.

Emirates says the carriers were not consulted before Airbus decided on the delay,

adding that the move was made mainly to accommodate upgrades and a thrust increase for the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engine.

Airbus Chief Operating Officer-Customers John Leahy says, “Emirates is a valued customer to us, and we are convinced our offering will deliver on their expectations.”

Il est dans l'optique d'accepter les A350-XWB-1000, donc ! Hmm !

TC a écrit: Also, Emirates has observed a very low degradation factor: The first aircraft delivered in 2008 would normally perform around 2.5-3% less efficiently than in the beginning, but according to Clark the degradation has been only around 1%.

• il y a eu 300 moteurs (dont 185 construits, et 120 environ 'dans le pipeline vers la réalisation'=, qui ont des problèmes,
  
• et qu'il y a eu récemment quelques IFSD, dus à des "uncontained in-flight engine failures, en raison de défauts de "design", entre autres, à rectifier parmi les NGV ("Nozzle Guide Vanes"), avec un redesign du "cooling system configuration",
  
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• on dirait que Tim CLARK, & / ou certains de ceux qui 'lui expliquent les choses', n'ont pas une idée très claire de ce que la notion de 'dégradation' englobe, ou peut englober.