GE Snub Of Airbus A350 Continues

[Mike W]

From the excellent Fleetbuzz Editorial

http://www.fleetbuzzeditorial.com/2009/05/14/ge-a350/

May 14th, 2009

GE Happy To Power A350-800 & A350-900

No GE Engine For A350-1000 While Committed To Rival 777-300ER

Airbus’ Vice President of Marketing, Andrew Shankland, gave a market assessment of the upcoming A350XWB family in Hamburg, Germany as part of Airbus Innovation Days briefings earlier this week and highlighted the wide market appeal as being part of the success of the airplane sales thus far.

“There are a number of reasons why the market has enthusiastically taken to the A350 XWB. The first reason is that Airbus has taken the ‘family approach’ with three variants that are all fully launched and ordered by our customers,” said Shankland.

“In turn, this means that the A350 XWB is not only able to replace Boeing 767’s and compete with the 787, but also replace the Boeing 777. In effect, when ordering the A350, customers have one family replacing two or more families.“

Continues and a good read.