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Malaysia Airlines said yesterday that it has made clear to Airbus its disappointment in the delayed delivery of its A380s and is seriously considering canceling its order.

MAS has six A380s on order and originally was supposed to receive its first in May 2008.

CEO Azmil Zahruddin told reporters yesterday following the carrier's AGM that the first A380 now is scheduled to be
delivered in the 2012 second quarter, its fourth delivery date. "MAS hopes to make a decision this year on whether we'll cancel the A380 orders," he said. "We are not happy."

While cancellations based on the current, revised delivery schedule are possible,Zahruddin indicated that any additional delay would lead MAS to pull the plug. He said the carrier "cannot tolerate" further delays.

He explained that the four-year postponement of its first A380 delivery has made it "very difficult to plan to make sure that our network is in the right place."
Chairman Munir Abdul Majid also weighed in, telling reporters that MAS has been "pretty firm" with Airbus in recent talks, according to media reports.

Airbus said it is "sorry" about the delays and is "confident" it can meet MAS's revised delivery schedule.

Airbus CEO Tom Enders recently conceded that the manufacturer is under pressure to stabilize the A380 program and parent EADS has said that A380 production costs and delays "weigh significantly on the underlying [financial] performance" of it and Airbus ([Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]).

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Malaisie/A380: commandes annulées?
21 juin, 2010

La compagnie aérienne Malaysian Airlines a indiqué aujourd'hui qu'elle pourrait annuler une commande de six Airbus A380 en raison des retards de livraison qui affectent ses plans d'expansion.

"Nous n'excluons rien", a déclaré le PDG de la compagnie, Azmil Zahruddin, interrogé sur l'éventualité d'une annulation de la commande.

"Il est frustrant de gérer les retards d'Airbus", a-t-il ajouté, alors qu'Airbus a reporté une seconde fois en avril la livraison de ses premiers appareils à la compagnie.
Malaysian Airlines a passé une commande de six des avions à deux étages qui devaient initialement être livrés à partir de janvier 2007, mais qui ne le seront pas avant 2011.

Plus ça change, ... plus c'est la même chose ! Il faut qu'Airbus fasse quelque chose pour mieux gérer ce dossier ! Evidemment, ........ Airbus vient d'obtenir la commande ferme de 17 x A330-300 ! MAS doit vouloir qu'un ou deux de ces avions soient "gratuits" / "cadeau", pour maintenir la commande des A380, avec, bien sûr, des dates de livraison plus tôt, pour ces derniers !

Airbus connaît des difficultés chroniques avec son très gros porteur, dont la montée en cadence de production s'avère plus complexe et coûteuse que prévu.
Malaysian Airlines a annoncé en décembre 2009 son intention d'acheter 25 A330-300s pour un montant de 5 milliards de dollars pour faire face à son marché en croissance. La livraison devait s'échelonner entre 2011 et 2016.

A suivre !
Mais il faut que cette affaire à rebondissements & / ou à tergiversations cesse d'être une partie de ping-pong ! Airbus n'aide ni son propre cas ni celui du motoriste RR dans tout cela ! [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]

KUALA LUMPUR, 29 juin (Reuters) - MalaysiaAirlines n'annulera pas sa commande de six très gros porteurs Airbus A380 malgré les retards subis par le développement de celui-ci, a rapporté mardi l'agence de presse malaisienne Bernama, citant un responsable gouvernemental.

"A ce stade, MAS n'a pas l'intention de résilier la commande", adéclaré au parlement le vice-ministre des Transports Abdoul Rahim Bakri, dont les propos sont rapportés par l'agence.

Il a précisé qu'Airbus verserait 329 millions de ringgits (83 millions d'euros) à la compagnie au titre d'indemnités de retard.

(Royce Cheah, Marc Angrand pour le service français, édité par Dominique Rodriguez)

Boeing has lost one of its two leasing customers for the 747-8 family, following the decision by Guggenheim Aviation Partners (GAP) to cancel its remaining orders for the freighter variant due to the ongoing
programme delays.

The US lessor, who originally ordered four 747-8Fs in August 2007, cancelled half its order a year ago and confirms that has now terminated the remainder of the contract.

"We were very disappointed and surprised that we were left with no alternative but to terminate our agreement to purchase the two 747-8Fs," GAP chief executive Steve Rimmer tells ATI and Flightglobal.

"The cancellation was a direct result of the delays and the commercial and economic impact of those delays."

Rimmer says that the two aircraft had been placed with Korean Air, which also has orders directly with Boeing for five freighters and five of the passenger variant.

The airline is expected to continue with the acquisition of the two GAP aircraft, via the airframer.

The cancellation reduces Boeing's order backlog for the freighter variant of the new 747 to 74 aircraft from seven customers, all but one of which is an airline.

The remaining lessor is Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, which has 15 on order.

Although some of this batch is earmarked for DAE's associate Emirates SkyCargo, the Dubai lessor last year cancelled a significant portion of its order book with Airbus and Boeing for other types, and the longer-term status of its 747-8F orders is unclear.

Boeing has lost one of its two leasing customers for the 747-8 family, following the decision by Guggenheim Aviation Partners (GAP) to cancel its remaining orders for the freighter variant due to the ongoing programme delays.
The US lessor, who originally ordered four 747-8Fs in August 2007, cancelled half its order a year ago and confirms that has now terminated the remainder of the contract.

"We were very disappointed and surprised that we were left with no alternative but to terminate our agreement to purchase the two 747-8Fs," GAP chief executive Steve Rimmer tells ATI and Flightglobal. "The cancellation was a direct result of the delays and the commercial and economic impact of those delays."

Rimmer says that the two aircraft had been placed with Korean Air, which also has orders directly with Boeing for five freighters and five of the passenger variant. The airline is expected to continue with the acquisition of the two GAP aircraft, via the airframer.
The cancellation reduces Boeing's order backlog for the freighter variant of the new 747 to 74 aircraft from seven customers, all but one of which is an airline. The remaining lessor is Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, which has 15 on order. Although some of this batch is earmarked for DAE's associate Emirates SkyCargo, the Dubai lessor last year cancelled a significant portion of its order book with Airbus and Boeing for other types, and the longer-term status of its 747-8F orders is unclear.

Airbus confirmed plans on Thursday for a 25 percent increase in production of its A330 long-range aircraft as it cashes in on delays to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

The lightweight carbon-composite 787 aims to outclass the Airbus jet in both technology and fuel efficiency, but sales of the A330 have rebounded sharply while the 787 has fallen three years behind schedule.

Airbus said it would increase production of the twinjet A330 family, which also includes the the largely sidelined four-engined A340, from eight planes a month now to nine a month in early 2012 and 10 in second-quarter 2013.
Airbus officials had said they were considering the production increase at New Year press briefings in January.

It also sought to draw a line under a dispute with the first customer for a freighter version of the A330 by revoking an order for 12 planes from India's Flyington Freighters.
Airbus did not publicly give a reason, but people familiar with the dispute on both sides have said Flyington and Airbus have quarrelled over the payment of deposits against the USD$1.2 billion order and other matters.

Flyington was due to have taken the first delivery of an A330 last year but Airbus substituted Etihad Airways as the inaugural customer at the Farnborough air show last year.

Airbus said it had received 32 plane orders in January, or a net total of 12 orders after the Flyington cancellation. It delivered 33 planes in January.
Airbus plans to offer a military version of the A330 in a competition worth up to USD$50 billion to supply aerial refuelling tankers to the United States. If it wins, it will start assembling the freighter version alongside A330 tankers in Mobile, Alabama. Boeing is offering a version of its 767 airliner, which reached its 1,000th delivery this week.

(Reuters)

DAE Capital annule 30 commandes d'Airbus

DAE Capital, société de leasing d'avions de Dubai, a annulé 30 commandes d'Airbus d'une valeur de 4,7 milliards de dollars (3,4 milliards d'euros) aux prix catalogue actuels, selon les données publiées jeudi par Airbus.
La société dont la majorité du capital est détenue par l'Etat de Dubai avait déjà annulé le mois dernier 32 commandes de Boeing 737 représentant deux milliards de dollars selon des analystes.
Cette annulation de 18 commandes du monocouloir A320 et de 12 du gros porteurs A350-900, fait partie des 43 commandes annulées en février chez Airbus, portant le solde net à -3 depuis le début de l'année.
DAE Capital avait commandé plus de 200 avions pendant l'essor du secteur en 2007, mais la crise financière mondiale a contrecarré ses ambitions. Elle aurait cédé une partie de ses commandes à la compagnie aérienne de Dubai Emirates.
La compagnie libyenne Afriqiyah Airways a converti de son côté trois commandes d'A320 en A321, selon les données d'Airbus, tandis que 13 commandes d'A330 ont par ailleurs été annulées.
Airbus a parallèlement livré 73 appareils en janvier-février.

Commande record pour le nouvel A320 d'Airbus

La commande du loueur américain ILFC est évaluée à 9,5 milliards de dollars. Ce dernier se porte également acquéreur de 33 Boeing 737-800, pour 2,6 milliards environ

Le loueur d'avions ILFC, plus grande société de leasing au monde, a annoncé ce mardi avoir signé un protocole d'accord portant sur la commande de 100 Airbus de la famille A320 NEO, pour un prix catalogue de 9,5 milliards de dollars.

Parallèlement à cette commande, ILFC a cependant résilié son accord portant sur l'acquisition de 10 A380. «Avec 104 gros-porteurs en commande et moins d'une douzaine de monocouloirs, il est parfaitement logique de rééquilibrer notre carnet de commandes et de positionner stratégiquement ILFC sur le NEO à faible consommation de carburant», s'est justifié Henri Courpron, PDG d'ILFC.

IFLC est ainsi «la première société de leasing à acquérir l'A320 NEO», s'est félicité John Leahy, le directeur commercial d'Airbus. Le 1^er mars dernier, l'A320 NEO, nouvelle vedette commerciale de l'avionneur européen, avait passé [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] après le contrat conclu avec le transporteur brésilien TAM.

ILFC, filiale de l'assureur américain AIG, a également annoncé la commande de 33 moyens-courriers 737-800 à Boeing, soit un contrat de 2,6 milliards de dollars au prix catalogue. Ces avions devraient commencer à lui être livrés à partir de 2012.

Kuwaiti low-cost carrier [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] has cancelled 25 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] A320s, most of its outstanding order for the type.

Airbus' latest backlog figures, covering the first quarter of 2011, show that Jazeera's order count has reduced from 39 aircraft to just 14.

Jazeera has confirmed the cancellation, although it adds that it will still take four A320s from 2012 to 2014.

"The decision to resize our fleet is the right decision for Jazeera Airways at the time being, given the overcapacity we've seen in the market in 2009 and 2010," says chairman Marwan Boodai.

But he says that Jazeera "might revisit this decision" given the new [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] variants being introduced by the airframer.

Airbus' figures show the order book for leasing operation Sahaab, which is affiliated with Jazeera, remains unchanged.

The carrier has already been leasing out part of its fleet to deal with overcapacity, while fellow Kuwaiti carrier Wataniya Airways - created under the same state strategy which led to Jazeera's emergence -collapsed last month.

Jazeera placed an order for 30 A320s in 2007, supplementing an initial 10 of the type, and selected CFM International [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] engines to power them.

Fiji's [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] appears to be the carrier behind the cancellation of eight [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] 787s disclosed in Boeing's order books last month.The airline had ordered five [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]-9s in April 2006 and taken purchase rights on another three.

These aircraft were originally intended for delivery this year.

Air Pacific subsequently firmed the purchase rights in December 2007, taking its overall total to eight 787-9s.

The airline also selected General Electric [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] engines for the twinjets.

But Boeing revealed in March that eight 787s had been struck from its backlog, and its first-quarter order total for the type shows that the eight Air Pacific aircraft are no longer listed.

Air Pacific could not immediately be reached to confirm the cancellation but Boeing's data for March 2011 shows 835 787s on order, a net reduction of eight from the previous month.Australia's Qantas Airways holds a 46% share in Air Pacific.

Australia's Qantas Airways will cut spending by AUD$700 million (USD$750 million) and plans to cancel aircraft orders as it battles waning demand, high fuel costs and investor displeasure with its shares trading near multi-year lows.
Qantas, which suffered a blow to its reputation after an Airbus A380 accident last year forced it to ground its flagship aircraft, said it will cut capital expenditure by AUD$400 million up to the end of fiscal 2012 and will reduce aircraft leasing costs by AUD$300 million.

With its shares at two-year lows, pilots threatening strike action, costs rising and the domestic economy going through a rough patch, Qantas has been under pressure to take decisive action, with some analysts suggesting its credit rating could come under pressure.
The airline has already offered cabin crew voluntary redundancy in hopes of cutting 350 jobs and raised fares several times to combat its AUD$3.7 billion fuel bill.
Qantas now expects its domestic capacity to grow by just 5.5 percent, below the 8 percent projected earlier and the airline will cancel or defer a fifth of its aircraft deliveries next year.

Australia's economy contracted by the fastest rate in 20 years in the first quarter and recent data on retail spending and consumer sentiment indicates households are feeling more pain than earlier thought and were unlikely to sharply raise consumer spending.
In addition, households have sharply raised their savings as they expect interest rates and mortgage costs, to go even higher.

(Reuters)

[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]'s [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] order backlog has fallen by eight aircraft, although it is unclear which customer is responsible.
To the end of May the airframer had orders for 835 aircraft from the twinjet family.
But in an update to its books Boeing recorded a loss of eight 787s to 21 June, bringing total cancellations for the type this year to 20.
[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] cancelled four 787s this year and Fiji's [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] cancelled another eight.
Boeing has not identified the customer behind the additional reduction.

It has recorded orders for 23 new aircraft - including Norwegian's additional 15 737s, six 737s for Air Lease and two 747s - and identified customers for a further 27 previously-ordered jets.
Boeing also listed cancellation of two 777s.

DAE Capital has cancelled its remaining backlog of aircraft orders with Airbus in the latest sign of disruption at the majority state-owned Dubai leasing company, Airbus data showed on Thursday.

The leasing firm, whose chief executive stepped down on June 30, has cancelled orders for 45 aircraft worth USD$5.8 billion at current list prices, according to a monthly Airbus order tally.
The same company had cancelled Airbus orders worth USD$4.7 billion as well as a slew of Boeing orders in March.

The move will place attention on the fate of its remaining orders with Boeing, which is due to update its data later on Thursday. DAE has outstanding orders for 56 Boeing aircraft, according to Boeing data available up to the end of May.

DAE Capital is 23-percent owned by state-linked DIFC Investments. Other shareholders include Dubai's sovereign wealth arm, Investment Corporation of Dubai.
The company ordered more than 200 aircraft during an industry boom in 2007 but its ambitions came under the spotlight during the global financial crisis.
It was reported last year to have ceded some of its orders to Dubai-based airline Emirates.

(Reuters)

Gulf Air appears to be the customer which cancelled an order for eight Boeing 787 aircraft last month.
The airline ordered 16 of the twinjets in January 2008 and supplemented them with a further eight in April 2009.
But Boeing's latest backlog figures show that the 2008 order has been halved to eight of the type, slashing the Bahraini flag-carrier's 787 total from 24 to 16.

Boeing disclosed in June that eight 787s had been removed from its order books, taking total 787 cancellations this year to 20.
Gulf Air could not immediately be reached to confirm the cancellation or to comment.

But the Middle Eastern carrier has been restructuring its fleet in favour of smaller-capacity aircraft, and during the Paris air show selected International Aero Engines powerplants for a batch of six Airbus A320-family twinjets, to be delivered next year.

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise may cancel Boeing orders

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DAE has unfilled orders with Boeing for 35 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], 15 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] and six 777s. A Boeing spokeswoman told Dow Jones that the two sides are talking, but that no cancellations have been made and that it currently isn’t expecting any.

Jeannot a écrit:Le dernier volet .pourrait s'écrire avec l'annulation de 56 appareils (35 737s, 15 747s et 6 777s) commandés à Boeing

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise may cancel Boeing orders

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DAE has unfilled orders with Boeing for 35 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], 15 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] and six 777s. A Boeing spokeswoman told Dow Jones that the two sides are talking, but that no cancellations have been made and that it currently isn’t expecting any.

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