This is pure and unadulterated hearsay of course, but the following was offered to me and my wife in Manchester recently from VERY reliable information through a long-term friend and sub-contractor colleague who has worked with Airbus for 9 years.....
He was recently having a cleansing white wine with an Australian ground-engineer-type gentleman from JetStar who has been working and liaising in France with Airbus for about 10 months....
The Aussie engineer stated that the recent news release about Qantas perhaps increasing their order of A380s is correct... sort of. Some A380s are CERTIFIED, GUARANTEED, SET IN STONE.... GOING TO JETSTAR INTERNATIONAL !!!!!!!!!!
Someone in Qantas is allegedly telling porky pies. I wonder how the FAAA and AIPA will react to this. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the next Qantas AGM to see the b
t that gushes from the Chairman and MB1 (Alan Joyce is MB2, apparently) when the question is asked from a shareholder, and it WILL.