AGL 40.27 Increased By ▲ 0.27 (0.68%)
AIRLINK 127.11 Increased By ▲ 0.07 (0.06%)
BOP 6.60 Decreased By ▼ -0.07 (-1.05%)
CNERGY 4.46 Decreased By ▼ -0.05 (-1.11%)
DCL 8.61 Increased By ▲ 0.06 (0.7%)
DFML 41.73 Increased By ▲ 0.29 (0.7%)
DGKC 87.40 Increased By ▲ 0.55 (0.63%)
FCCL 32.40 Increased By ▲ 0.12 (0.37%)
FFBL 64.80 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
FFL 10.23 Decreased By ▼ -0.02 (-0.2%)
HUBC 109.39 Decreased By ▼ -0.18 (-0.16%)
HUMNL 14.65 Decreased By ▼ -0.03 (-0.2%)
KEL 5.06 Increased By ▲ 0.01 (0.2%)
KOSM 7.61 Increased By ▲ 0.15 (2.01%)
MLCF 41.40 Increased By ▲ 0.02 (0.05%)
NBP 59.51 Decreased By ▼ -0.90 (-1.49%)
OGDC 192.15 Increased By ▲ 2.05 (1.08%)
PAEL 28.15 Increased By ▲ 0.32 (1.15%)
PIBTL 7.76 Decreased By ▼ -0.07 (-0.89%)
PPL 150.60 Increased By ▲ 0.54 (0.36%)
PRL 26.20 Decreased By ▼ -0.68 (-2.53%)
PTC 16.11 Increased By ▲ 0.04 (0.25%)
SEARL 82.70 Decreased By ▼ -3.30 (-3.84%)
TELE 7.77 Increased By ▲ 0.06 (0.78%)
TOMCL 35.38 Decreased By ▼ -0.03 (-0.08%)
TPLP 8.08 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.49%)
TREET 16.00 Decreased By ▼ -0.41 (-2.5%)
TRG 53.17 Decreased By ▼ -0.12 (-0.23%)
UNITY 26.30 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (0.54%)
WTL 1.26 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
BR100 9,985 Increased By 101.4 (1.03%)
BR30 31,147 Increased By 547.3 (1.79%)
KSE100 94,183 Increased By 827.6 (0.89%)
KSE30 29,176 Increased By 245.1 (0.85%)

Airbus chief Tom Enders conceded in a newspaper interview Sunday that some of the "massive problems" dogging the European airplane manufacturer's new military transporter, the A400M, were of the group's own making. "We underestimated the engine problems," Enders told the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag. At the start of the programme, Airbus had "let itself be persuaded by some well-known European leaders into using an engine made by an inexperienced consortium," Enders said.
Furthermore, it had let itself be roped into assuming full responsibility for this new type of turbo-prop engine, he continued.
"These are two massive problems which we're now paying for." But in addition to the "insufficient quality of the supplier ... home-made problems are also playing a role," Enders said. Despite delivery delays and limitations in its operational readiness, Enders said governments should not start looking for alternatives. "To write off the A400M would be the biggest mistake, because this plane has enormous potential," Enders said. One day, the new transporter would "form the backbone of the European transporter fleets" and would be an exporting success, he argued. The A400M is to replace the German army's ageing Transall aircarft. The new military transport was commissioned jointly in 2003 by the governments of Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2016

Comments

Comments are closed.