Made threat: Qatar Airways wants the ordered machines type A320neo not. According to airline Chief Al Baker instead to other Airbus airplanes to buy.
Akbar Al Baker, Group Chief Executive of Qatar Airways
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The Gulf airline Qatar Airways is making its threat and refrains from the delivery of Airbus A320neo models. That said the airline's chief, Akbar Al Baker, now in Doha.
Qatar Airways will only buy larger A321neo engines. These are powered by engines from the CFM consortium of General Electric and Safran. The A320neo had problems with the engines of the competitor Pratt & Whitney from the US company United Technologies.
It is open to which engines one sets, explained Al Baker. He had already threatened to let the order of the A320neo burst. In December, he said his airline wanted to rewrite the order of 80 jets to the larger A321neo mid-range model.
Due to the problems with the engines at the A320neo, Qatar Airways had rejected the A320neo decline. Lufthansa became the world's first operator of this aircraft type. That was almost a year ago. But even in Germany's biggest airline , the engines did have problems .
The Airbus models of the A320 family are the sales bases. The newly developed A320neo ("new engine option") will consume 15 percent less fuel, have more range and quieter than its predecessor. The modifications concern, for example, the line of the wings, the engine suspensions and the installed wing ends (sharklets).
The Gulf airline Qatar Airways is making its threat and refrains from the delivery of Airbus A320neo models. That said the airline's chief, Akbar Al Baker, now in Doha.
Qatar Airways will only buy larger A321neo engines. These are powered by engines from the CFM consortium of General Electric and Safran. The A320neo had problems with the engines of the competitor Pratt & Whitney from the US company United Technologies.
It is open to which engines one sets, explained Al Baker. He had already threatened to let the order of the A320neo burst. In December, he said his airline wanted to rewrite the order of 80 jets to the larger A321neo mid-range model.
Due to the problems with the engines at the A320neo, Qatar Airways had rejected the A320neo decline. Lufthansa became the world's first operator of this aircraft type. That was almost a year ago. But even in Germany's biggest airline , the engines did have problems .
The Airbus models of the A320 family are the sales bases. The newly developed A320neo ("new engine option") will consume 15 percent less fuel, have more range and quieter than its predecessor. The modifications concern, for example, the line of the wings, the engine suspensions and the installed wing ends (sharklets).
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