Airbus A380 Lacks Airline Customers for Delivery Slots in 2015
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Airbus SAS said it must step up efforts to market its flagship A380 as it still lacks buyers for some of the 30 double-decker planes it wants to build and deliver in 2015, the year the program is supposed to break even.
While Airbus still believes in the business rationale behind the superjumbo plane, the company needs to work harder to win more customers, Harald Wilhelm, the chief financial officer of Airbus and parent company European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co., told journalists today. Airbus reiterated that it expects to deliver 25 double deckers this year.