Orange Bowl tickets While the Airbus A380 getting into its first passengers for a flight test below Toulouse, Charles Champion, Director of program and number two of the European aircraft manufacturer, was landed yesterday without explanation. In a brief press release, the manufacturer announced his appointment to the post of "Special Adviser" of the new President and CEO, Christian Streiff, and its replacement "with immediate effect" by Luxembourgers Mario Heinen, fifty years, until then Director of the A320 program.
The program phare of Airbus since 2001 and présidentiable potential, Charles Champion adds thereby to the list of victims of the very large carrier delays, which caused the fall of Noël Forgeard and Gustav Humbert in July. After the announcement, last Friday, the hiring freeze, his eviction demonstrates the will to resume control of Airbus by Christian Streiff and prefigures the announcement of other bad news Orange Bowl tickets.
According to some, the new leader thus intends to assert its authority before the announcement, in late September, a new savings plan. During his appointment in July, many analysts and industry observers expressed concern about the choice of a neophyte, unknown in aeronautics, to replace Gustav Humbert, while Airbus situation called for urgent decisions. In imposing his choices, the person concerned demonstrates that it is at the controls.
No date
The change of men at the head of the A380 programme also reflects the persistent difficulties of the very large carrier. Despite some progress, Airbus has not yet managed to solve industrial problems.
Last month, no aircraft is out of Toulouse-Blagnac assembly plant, still swamped by devices in power systems to review, and no date is scheduled for a new convoy of elements of fuselages. What fuel recurrent rumours of further delays. By as much as if the aircraft manufacturer announced in June a new report "of six to seven months", he still provided no precise timetable of future deliveries customers.
Officially, the first aircraft must always arrive in Singapore Airlines before the end of the year but the Singaporean company has already changed its slogan to "First to fly the a380 in" 2006 "first to fly the A380". On the side of Air France, it is also officially in the last scheduled date of April 2008 a year's delay on the original date acknowledging however expect a final schedule. Therefore, a new shift of the calendar is not impossible. German Co-Chairman of EADS, Tom Enders, would itself implicitly acknowledged in a meeting with financial analysts, current July.
Orange Bowl tickets But this is not the sole concern of the new President and CEO of Airbus. For financial for the staff, the main concern indeed remains the future savings plan, which will result from the findings of the audit expected for the end of September. The plan announces drastic. To offset some 2 billion euros of additional costs of the A380, those of the A350 programme and negative foreign exchange effects, Christian Streiff effect must find as many economies. Gold the previous plan "road 2006", which aimed to reduce the cost of 1.5 billion from 2003 to 2006, would have already missed its goal of 500 to 600 million euros. Be therefore particularly difficult for the new pattern of Airbus.
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