Originally Posted by iceman49 (Post 1732586)

Think its 20 minutes in the seat prior to push...probably FOM

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1732613)

To the plane 30 minutes prior to push.

FOM 3.2.22 :)

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1732621)

Or, if they jam you with a 40 minute turn and 180 pax, whenever you get there.

Originally Posted by Airbus, Leahy COO

Leahy then announced that weather permitting the A320neo would make first flight 10.30 CET Thursday this week. Going forward, he said that in 2019 the A320neo will get a 2% boost in the engine efficiency for the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan (CFM has not yet confirmed an equal PIP program) which, together with the recently increased seat limit from 180 to 189 seats, will increase the per seat efficiency from 15% to 20% over the A320 of 2010. He then said, “and by the way, those 189 seats are all retro-fittable for the A319 and 320, apart for perhaps a change of an evacuation slide it is just paperwork” “For the 240 seat limit of the A321 we have made hardware changes”.

Leahy then went to the recently introduced A330neo. He said that the A330-800 and A330-900 matched the 787-8 and 787-9 on both fuel and cash operating costs and beats them on direct operating cost by virtue of lower purchase prices, they are therefore indeed a good idea. With 127 aircraft commitments from 7 customers at Farnborough Air show and a further 4 customers that he is expecting to close before end of year, the market agrees he said.

He then turned how to serve the 70 mega-cities of tomorrow. These mega-cities will route 90% of the worlds passenger traffic in 10 years, Airbus believes. With passenger numbers doubling every 15 years, there simply will not be slots for the type of aircraft the market would offer without the A380, Leahy said. These 70 mega cities are premium-heavy and the trend for such routes are to four class twin aisle airliners. When going to four classes, densely packaged aircraft like the 777 and A350 loses more seats than A380. The A350-1000 and 777-300ER lose about 24%-25% and end up around 275 seats, he said. The 777-9X loses 26% and now seats 300 passengers, whereas the A380 only loses 10%, ending up at 506 seats from 558.

Originally Posted by LivingTheDream (Post 1732701)

This is the 757 killer... Boeing is going to rue the decision to not offer an updated 75.

Originally Posted by flyallnite (Post 1732743)

They are. It's called the 737 MAX. :p. Really though, until the middle east carriers want it, Boeing won't build it. They are driving the R&D through enormous orders and options.

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1732760)

That is the truth. I sometimes worry that we're the guy who invested the widows' pension fund with Bernie Madoff.

OK, so we make up dollars out of thin air. We give these nothing dollars to ME carriers who return them to us + 2% for Airplanes. We then ship the nothing dollars back to them for oil that their Camels were getting stuck in before we figured out how to use it.

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The "smoking wheel" offers hope to restore our balance of payments.