Originally Posted by
MikeF16
Why would the buy of the A350s be contingent on a Chinese JV?
That's what they were purchased for in the first place. The Shanghai hub was planned to be like the AMS hub however it requires the range of a 777,787 or 350. With the length of the flight to Shanghai it was going to take a lot of airframes for that flying. To fill them plus the CS share you need feed on both ends. Absent that agreement we won't have a market to fly the airframes in. With the current international outlook airlines are dumping or deferring wide body orders left and right and new orders are a fraction of what they were 5 years ago.