Airbus is studying whether there is demand for a larger member of its A350 jet family and expects to make up its mind within a couple of months, its sales chief said on Monday. <\/p>\n
The European planemaker is not yet offering a specific design to airlines, but anything that it does decide to build would leapfrog Boeing’s 777X, he said, referring to a new 406-seat version of the US company’s 777 wide-body series. <\/p>\n
Airbus’s largest twin-engined jet is the 369-seat A350-100, which competes partly with the 365-seat Boeing 777-300ER. <\/p>\n
Asked about speculation that Airbus could build a larger version of the A350, sales chief John Leahy told Reuters, “We don’t know yet. If I had to bet, the larger part of the market will stay around the A350-1000 or 777-300ER size category. <\/p>\n
“I think in the next couple of months we will know if we want to do something.” <\/p>\n
Speaking to Reuters on Sunday, Airbus planemaking chief executive Fabrice Bregier did not rule out expanding the A350 family, but said this was not an immediate priority.<\/p>\n
In a sign that any new plane would be marketed so as to try to avoid upstaging the existing A350-1000, Leahy denied that the potential new plane would be called the A350-1100. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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