Airbus’s new boss

Published 9:00 pm Thursday, June 30, 2005

Would it be wrong to refer to Gustav Humbert as the new Airbus head, or “Airhead” for short?

Yeah, thought so.

Anyway, Humbert tells Reuters that it’s far too early to talk about replacing the popular A320 in Airbus’ product lineup.

Key Quote: “‘We have not yet decided to launch a successor to the A320, which, I would remind you, is selling very well and for which we need to increase our production from 25 to more than 30 a month,’ Humbert (said).”

Here’s a link:

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2005-07-01T173231Z_01_MOR160660_RTRUKOC_0_TRANSPORT-AIRBUS.xml

How well is it selling? GECAS — Jim McNerney’s old outfit — is ordering 40 of them, Bloomberg says:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aWpaMY1FQzcY&refer=europe