Qantas Airways Ltd. will receive deliveries of Airbus SE’s new longest-range single-aisle A321XLR jet six months later than planned, a timeframe that’s better than the industry average, the carrier’s CEO-designate said in Istanbul on Monday.
(Bloomberg) — Qantas Airways Ltd. will receive deliveries of Airbus SE’s new longest-range single-aisle A321XLR jet six months later than planned, a timeframe that’s better than the industry average, the carrier’s CEO-designate said in Istanbul on Monday.
Vanessa Hudson, who will succeed current Qantas Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce in November, said Qantas’s low-cost subsidiary Jetstar will receive the first of 20 A321XLRs by the end of 2024.
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Airbus representatives weren’t immediately available to comment.
“It has been delayed,” said Hudson, who’s currently Qantas’s chief financial officer. She said while Qantas had a six-month delay “the rest of the market has on average 12 months.”
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Bloomberg News reported in March that Airbus was advising customers they’ll face a longer wait for its newest jetliner. Airbus and Boeing Co. are both contending with supply chain and production headaches that have knocked the build of new planes off schedule by months.
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