Originally Posted by
tdracer
I was in a meeting many moons ago where it was proposed that they contract to build a fifth LCF while the tooling and expertise was still available - where it was pointed out that only have four would be seriously limiting (especially if one got damaged). They got turned down because upper management didn't want to spend the money.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I heard somewhere that Airbus’s Beluga fleet is hired out when not shuttling between Hamburg, Broughton, Toulouse and Madrid and that this contract work pretty much pays for their own movements.
Speculate to accumulate.