Willow, re your trans Atlantic views; #1058
See the 'political' answers in
https://aviationweek.com/air-transpo...lt-discussions
It might be of greater importance that these subjects are published publicly, opposed to having any hard answers.
"We trust the FAA to do the right thing to solve the issues, if there are any."
"Where are you in certifying the 777X? We had a lot of discussions with the FAA and Boeing. Some were more difficult than others, but what matters is that we are agreeing on a common way forward."
"And of course, after the 737 MAX [crisis], there were lessons learned on the internal processes, items to which we need to pay more attention, such as the change product rule. What we saw was that the bilaterals are worded in sufficiently high-level terms that we can use them on both sides to [ensure] that the level of safety is what we want to achieve.
Certification is a matter of people.
It’s a matter of expertise.
We were very clear with Boeing and the FAA that we needed to define measures, solutions [and] changes with which our technical experts would be comfortable."
"… So it is not a surprise that the approach to certification is different in the U.S. and Europe. I think it is better this way, to be frank. If we can achieve the same results with two different approaches, our systems are even more robust."