INCIDENTALLY: Airbus Suffers Wiring Problem
As if it did not have enough electrical problems with the A380 Airbus
came in for some more embarrassment at Farnborough when an important
press conference had to be moved due to power problems in their chalet.
In truth it was down to the show organisers and the extremely hot
weather. Rumour also had it that the new A350 was to be called the
A350ewc (extra wide cabin and not extra you know what) which may have
drawn headlines from less inhibited journals than ABTN. XWB is fine
by us.
Just in case anyone thinks that that we are not disposed to Airbus the
next day the same thing happened to Boeing, this time in the press
centre. 747 VP Randy Tinseth struggled and for once the speaker was
in the dark as much as the audience. No windows in the conference
room.
However the prize for the mistake of the week goes to ATR who
contracted a car to collect Juhani Pakari, Managing Director of
Finncomm Airlines at Heathrow. Sadly the driver had been poorly
briefed. He went off to Farnborough in Kent! As the late Queen
Victoria is reported to have said. ”We are not amused”.