Thursday, March 24, 2011

Airbus exec: A321 is ideal Boeing 757 replacement

European plane maker Airbus would like to get its re-engined A320neo family into service in 2015 and expects the largest of the new planes to win orders from existing Boeing 757 operators, a top executive said Thursday.

“The neo is planned to enter service in the middle of 2016,” Airbus Americas President and Chief Executive Officer Barry Eccleston noted at the J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation & Defense Conference, in New York. “We’d really like to get the airplane in service by the end of......

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