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Air France Buying 60 Airbus A220 Aircraft + Options
July 28, 2019 - by Sylvie Andreau for lejdd.fr Air France will announce a firm order of about 60 aircraft type A220. Other purchases are optional. (www.fliegerfaust.com) Mais...
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France 24 is also reporting this. An interesting aside is the fact that the new CEO of Air France - Ben Smith - is also Canadian. He is the first non-French citizen to head-up Air France https://www.france24.com/en/20190728-air-france-place-mega-order-a220-jets-french-weekly
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Why? The fact that he's Canadian *might* mean he's not prejudiced against the A220, but he's not going to spend that much of his shareholders' money for purely patriotic reasons. There has to be a good business case for the choice. The fact that a major airline thinks so is far more important than which passport the CEO carries.
He is not the first Canadian to run a major foreign carrier. For example AMERICAN AIRLINES was run by a Canadian for more than 20 years. Shareholders want an efficient money making fleet of aircraft. Today with a growing global economy a wide range of choices are available to an airline not just Boeing X Y or Z. How that fleet is deployed is the key to the bank and success of the CEO and the carrier.
I never said he wasn't the first. I said that aspect is irrelevant. They bought the aircraft because they decided it meets their needs and the costs/profits equation works for them.
And which "Boeing X Y or Z" was an alternate choice for an A220?
And which "Boeing X Y or Z" was an alternate choice for an A220?
Your call...
Why are you so angry all the time. Your diatribes have become barely tolerable. Please lighten you discussion. Its getting hard to take.
