DLH: 748 Launching Customer?

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Nach dem Posting von ramier in Flottennews 2006:

 

Von Bloomberg:

 

By Susanna Ray and James Gunsalus

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's

second-largest airline, said it's interested in both passenger

and freight versions of Boeing Co.'s planned 747-8 airliner.

Lufthansa is giving Boeing proposals on how the Cologne,

Germany-based airline would want both the 747-8, a proposed

longer version of its largest airliner, and the new 787 model

configured in the event it buys the planes, Boeing Germany

President Horst Teltschik said in an interview in Berlin.

Boeing approved production of the 450-seat 747-8 in November

in a challenge to Airbus SAS's 550-seat A380 as the Chicago-based

company tries to hold onto the jumbo-jet market it created almost

four decades ago. The A380 will overtake the current 420-seat 747

model as the world's biggest commercial aircraft when it enters

service later this year.

Lufthansa will have the world's second-biggest fleet of

A380s once all 15 are delivered starting in 2008. That wouldn't

damp its interest in Boeing's giant plane, Michael Lamberty, a

Lufthansa spokesman, said in an interview today in Berlin.

``We think we have an advantage, because Lufthansa hasn't

ordered Boeing planes in eight years, so they run the risk of

becoming dependent on Airbus,'' Teltschik said.

The German airline plans a ``large order, in the

billions,'' for either the 787 or Airbus's competing A350 in

2006, Lamberty said. ``This is the big year for plane

decisions.''

 

Oder gibt es schon 747-800 (Erst)Kunde(n)?

 

Gruss

[ramier]

Nach dem Posting von ramier in Flottennews 2006:

 

Oder gibt es schon 747-800 (Erst)Kunde(n)?

 

Gruss

 

Nur Cargolux und Nippon Cargo für die Frachtervariante, wenn LH sich-wie ich hoffe sich für die 747-8 entscheidet- wären sie die Erstkunden für die Passagiervariante.

Neben LH haben auch British Airways und Cathay Pacifice grosses Interesse an der 747-8.