Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Airbus A350 to Be `Hellish Ride' for Enders in Bid for Top Job

Tom Enders slipped on his tan leather aviator jacket and shades and settled in the pilot seat of a white helicopter, before commanding the chopper through the skies of northern Germany on its 20-minute flight to Hamburg.

“It’s going to be a hellish ride,” the German Airbus chief executive officer had told a crowd at a jet component factory on Aug. 31 before taking off. Luckily for his three passengers, Enders wasn’t talking about his skills as a pilot.

Rather, the source of his concern is the new A350 wide-body jet being created under increasing......

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