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Airbus erhält von EADS grünes Licht für A350

Airbus kann mit dem mittelgroßen verbrauchsarmen Flugzeug A350 gegen den neuen Verkaufsrenner 787 "Dreamliner" von Boeing antreten. Die beiden Airbus-Konzernmütter EADS und BAE Systems gaben heute grünes Licht für das Projekt. Das teilte EADS nach einer Verwaltungsratssitzung in Amsterdam mit.

Neun Kunden hätten bereits 140 feste Kaufabsichten für den A350 bekundet, erklärte EADS. Airbus will 4,35 Mrd. Euro in den A350 investieren. Die vier Airbus-Staaten Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien und Großbritannien sollen das Projekt mit Starthilfekrediten von bis zu einem Drittel der Kosten fördern.

Die USA versuchen das über die Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) zu verhindern. Im Interesse der Verhandlungen hätten Airbus, EADS und BAE Systems zugestimmt, dass 2006 keine Kredite ausgezahlt werden sollten, erklärte EADS. Airbus hat erklärt, den A350 auch ohne Hilfen finanzieren zu können.

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Airbus to build unsubsidized A350
The planemaker will build new model without state loans to calm transatlantic clash.
October 6, 2005: 1:08 PM EDT

PARIS (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus won shareholder backing Thursday to build a new model whose funding has triggered a transatlantic clash over subsidies, but promised to delay using state loans to try to cool the dispute.

European aerospace group EADS, which owns 80 percent of Airbus, said it was offering a "new window of opportunity" to resolve the dispute over how the new A350 jet should be funded and avert what threatens to be the biggest trade war between the European Union and the United States.

But it also called on rival Boeing (Research) to exercise similar restraint and there was no immediate word on whether Washington would welcome the offer, nor whether trade tensions would ease.

"We strongly support government efforts to find an equitable and mutually supported resolution and we call upon our competitor to do the same," EADS co-chief executives Noel Forgeard and Tom Enders said in a statement.

Airbus has applied for around a third of the 4.3 billion development costs for the A350 in European government loans. Washington opposes them, saying they would tip the market unfairly against Boeing's rival model, the 787 Dreamliner.

Airbus counters that Boeing receives disguised subsidies.

EADS said after a board meeting it had decided not to touch the chest of loans from four countries -- Britain, France, Germany and Spain -- until the end of 2006 to let the trade tensions cool off. It did not say whether governments had committed to pay the loans once the deadline expired.

"The European governments have provided letters of general support for the A350. However, Airbus, EADS and BAE Systems have decided that no disbursement should take place throughout 2006 as long as there is a credible prospect of negotiations and similar restraint is being undertaken in the United States."

France said earlier its 2006 budget did not include a provision for paying development loans.

Trade analysts had warned that committing to build the plane with government money up front could worsen the trade spat.

France was the first to announce the peace overture concerning the loans ahead of Thursday's board meeting.

"We want a true negotiation between Europe and the United States," Transport Minister Dominique Perben said.

"The delay between a decision in principle and the payment of aid will be used to open this negotiation ... A meeting of the ministers (from the four governments) involved will take place in the coming weeks," he told La Tribune daily.

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No official U.S. reaction was immediately available.

But U.S. industry expert David Pritchard of the University of Buffalo said Washington was unlikely to be impressed by the European gesture and expressed concerns that the conflict could even widen to include Japan, where key Boeing suppliers are.

"I don't see the U.S. agreeing to anything and the next phase could be Europe filing against Japanese subsidies for the 787," said Pritchard, who publishes Pravco aviation review.

The twin-engined A350 is billed as Europe's rival to Boeing's 787 Dreamliner which is due to start flying in 2008.

It has been marketed since late last year but only scored with airlines once it had been redesigned with more seats.

The industrial launch sets up a duel in a growing market for fuel-efficient jets that fly non-stop to final destinations over long distances between regions, known as "point to point."

Boeing says this is the most promising 21st-century market while Airbus has hitherto concentrated on development of its mammoth A380, which is designed to fly between large hubs for connection with short-haul onward flights.

Airbus says it has 140 commitments for the A350 from nine customers and targets 200 sales by the end of the year. It is striving to catch up with Boeing which had a two-year start in design and has bagged 263 commitments including 118 firm orders for the 787, which enters service two years earlier in 2008.

Das Original findet ihr unter: http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/06/news/international/airbus.reut/index.htm

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Rolls-Royce to supply new Trent engine for A350
06 October 2005

Rolls-Royce has reached agreement with Airbus to supply a new variant of its Trent engine series for the A350 airliner.

The sixth member of the Trent family, to be known as the Trent 1700, will be available for A350 deliveries from mid 2011.

Mike Terrett, President, Civil Aerospace, Rolls-Royce, said: “This is an important development which allows us to extend our successful relationship with Airbus on all their new widebody programmes. We have strong, market-leading or sole source positions with the Trent on the A330, latest A340s, and the A380, and we are equally confident that the Trent 1700 will establish itself successfully on the A350.

"Like its predecessors, the Trent 1700 will follow a derivative, cost-effective development route, and bring world-best technologies and operating economics to complement this exciting new aircraft."

The Trent 1700 will be the only engine specifically developed and fully optimised for the 250-300 seat A350 and will utilise the latest available technology at entry into service.

Gustav Humbert, President and Chief Executive Officer of Airbus, said: "The A350 represents a new generation of style and economics. We are confident that the Trent 1700 will play a significant part in the appeal of this new airliner, and we're delighted to have reached this agreement with Rolls-Royce."

The new powerplant, which will be developed with a thrust rating of 75,000lb, will run for the first time in mid 2009. Engine certification is scheduled for 2010, ahead of joint certification for aircraft and engine by the airworthiness authorities the following year.

Originalartikel zu finden unter: http://www.rolls-royce.com/media/showPR.jsp?PR_ID=40250

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Airbus said on Friday it expects to win at least another 57 orders for its new A350 passenger plane by the end of this year, bringing the total number of orders to 200.

The aircraft is billed as Europe's rival to Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, due to start flying in 2008.

"We have 143 orders now and I am highly confident that we will see 200 orders by the end of the year," Airbus sales chief John Leahy said on the sidelines of an event to mark the first long-haul flight of its A380.

Leahy declined to say how many A350s it needed to sell to break even: "We made the mistake of giving that number for the A380."

Airbus could take new orders at the Dubai Air Show later this month, an aerospace exhibition known for deal announcements that reflect the region's burgeoning airlines sector. Orders worth more than USD$6 billion were made at the last Dubai show, held in 2003.

The A350 is central to a dispute between the European Union and the United States over the EUR1.3 billion (USD$1.5 billion) in loans received by Airbus from Britain, France, Germany and Spain -- the four countries where the aircraft maker has most of its operations.

Originalbeitrag zu finden unter: http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1131746334.html