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21.06.06, 19:28
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Airbus in a Nosedive
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By Dinah Deckstein
Airbus has owned up to another delay in production of its prestige jumbo jet,
the A380. The debacle will cost billions and open old wounds in French-German
relations.
At the International Air Show in Berlin last month, Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert
showed once again how smoothly he can handle a setback. "The game isn't
over," he said, in a challenge to his arch-rivals at Boeing. "This summer
it's just starting in earnest." Word had just come out that Humbert's new
long-distance jet, the A350, would have to be completely overhauled because
of a lack of demand.
According to close confidantes, he still didn't know at the time that shortly
thereafter an even tougher setback would hit his company