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Mar 26, 2007 (newstodate): Finnair is happy with its decision to stay with Airbus for delivery of the A350XWB aircraft, but keen not to take the earlierst aircraft off the assembly line.
-We spent the whole summer and autumn 2006 unaware of Airbus' intentions. Finally, at the end of November, Airbus announced that it was completely redesigning the A350 and that it would invest nearly 10 billion euros in the project. From Finnairs perspective this, of course, means better aircraft, but unfortunately with a nearly two-year delay in the introduction of the A350, Jukka Hienonen, Finnair president & CEO said at the recent annual general meeting.
-A renegotiation was therefore necessary. We were actually one of the few Airbus customers who had received a fixed price for the A350, but the problem for us arising from the change was the additional time we would have to wait for the aircraft.
-Under the agreement signed with Airbus in March 2007, we will acquire ten A340/A330 aircraft. When the new technology A350 aircraft comes on to the market, we will take 11 of them, but only from serial number 30 upwards, in order to avoid possible product development versions of the aircraft ending up in Finnairs colours, he said.
-We spent the whole summer and autumn 2006 unaware of Airbus' intentions. Finally, at the end of November, Airbus announced that it was completely redesigning the A350 and that it would invest nearly 10 billion euros in the project. From Finnairs perspective this, of course, means better aircraft, but unfortunately with a nearly two-year delay in the introduction of the A350, Jukka Hienonen, Finnair president & CEO said at the recent annual general meeting.
-A renegotiation was therefore necessary. We were actually one of the few Airbus customers who had received a fixed price for the A350, but the problem for us arising from the change was the additional time we would have to wait for the aircraft.
-Under the agreement signed with Airbus in March 2007, we will acquire ten A340/A330 aircraft. When the new technology A350 aircraft comes on to the market, we will take 11 of them, but only from serial number 30 upwards, in order to avoid possible product development versions of the aircraft ending up in Finnairs colours, he said.