Boeing’s Randy Baseler talked up the prospects for selling 747-8 passenger jets in 2006 today at the Singapore air show, Bloomberg News reports. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aMH2Cd2n7SIc&refer=us
Key Quote: “Some of the carriers that Boeing is talking to, including Singapore Airlines Ltd., ‘already have purchased some A380s, but we think they will still be interested in the 747-8,’ he said at the Asian Aerospace 2006 show yesterday. ‘We expect to get a couple of airlines on the passenger version this year.’”
Meanwhile, Boeing and Airbus took turns talking smack about each other’s big planes, the Associated Press says. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/3676670.html
Boeing officials repeated their contention that there’s only a handful of airline that want the 555-seat A380, but …
Key Quote: “Airbus retorted that Boeing’s pessimistic projection was ‘silly’ given the rapid growth of air travel, particularly in Asia.”
Meanwhile, there’s one piece of news that’s not likely to come out of Singapore this week — a Singapore Airlines decision on whether it wants 787s or A350s. That’s according to MarketWatch http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B8451FCFB%2DC952%2D497E%2DB0D1%2DC7D958CE41F8%7D&siteid=google&keyword and ZNews from India http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=276923&ssid=53&sid=BUS
Key Quote (from MarketWatch): “‘We are evaluating (the proposals). The early submissions didn’t meet our requirements in terms of delivery schedule and operational economics,’ Chief Executive Chew Choon Seng said on the sidelines of an aviation conference.”
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