Bonjour !
Des arguments développés qui tiennent la route sur Leeham, pour le A358 .... !
Reply 33, ça peut glisser !
http://leehamnews.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/sizing-up-the-777x-vs-airbus-and-boeing/#comments
Christopher Dye aka
Reply to Jacobin 777 #2 Re A358
CM, a knowledgable Boeing guy who has commented on this site, said re
the A358: Why would A cancel a perfectly good, completely state-of-the
art, new plane, and spend billions instead on neoing/re-winging the
A330, when that money would be much better spent solving the 358′s
problem, which is that it needs a new, optimized wing. I would add that
if A does cancel the A358, it will leave B with a near monopoly for
years in the entire seqment from 200-290 pax (instead of just 200-250
pax), and result in A’s getting, for its billions spent, a new family
planes consisting of only two planes separated by only 36 seats. I
think A’s plan is to keep the A358, but wait until they get production
of the 359 and -1000 going, and then re-wing it. I think this is B’s
plan as well for the 789 and 7810, the idea being particularly for the
7810 to use the new wing to increase payload range to something like the
A359′s .
I think A was forced to mothball the A358 because of B’s success in
selling -300ERs, and their strategy of PIPing the -300ER until the
777-8X arrives in 2012 (ie 737NG/NSA redux).. They wanted to get the
-1000 in the mkt ASAP to soak those sales, before those sales soaked up
te -1000.
Uwe
May 5, 2013 at 5:27 am | #34
Initially offered as a optimised frame the -800 variant was
changed to a “plain” shrink some time ago. In the same window in time
the -1000 model was “uprated” leading to more develtime required for
further optimisations like variable thickness frames.
I would not be surprised to see the -800 going back to getting a more bespoke body.
Fuselage and wing optimisations would not cut into the “family”
advantages as differentiated structure should have low impact as long as
replacable parts stay common.
Bon, a suivre , pourquoi pas !
Arranger sérieusement le A358, au lieu de Néotiser le A330 ....JPRS