Airbus SAS said it’s confident of securing a firm order for four A380 superjumbos before the end of March from Skymark Airlines Inc., as it seeks to use the discount carrier to pry open the Japanese market.
Skymark, which operates a fleet of 15 Boeing Co. 737 aircraft on domestic routes, aims to use the double-decker Airbus to connect Tokyo with London. Airbus aims to get a firm commitment from Skymark by the end of the first quarter, said Kiran Rao, the Airbus executive vice president for sales and marketing in Asia.
“Japanese culture lends itself to the A380,” Rao said in a telephone interview yesterday. “If you look at the way that airlines operate the A380, you’ll see that one of the first markets they all went into is Japan.”
While the world’s largest passenger aircraft makes regular appearances in Japan with airlines including Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Airbus has......
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