Originally Posted by
ORAC
Emirates have sent in a team of auditors to confirm what possibility there is of any further slippage.
I don't know what the precise procedure is at Airbus, but elsewhere in industry, when you have a multi-million supply contract in place (and this is a multi-billion one) then you will have your own engineers and surveyors, or indeed a team of them, in place at the manufacturer's facilities during the course of construction to verify what is going on, be close to the programme, authorise any progress payments, and indirectly make sure that what you are being told is correct. You don't just want to get to delivery day and be told by the supplier "Um ...... surprise !"
If you think that T5 at Heathrow has been built without a whole group of BAA-employed engineers and construction professionals seeing that every step of what the construction contractors are doing is on plan and going right ...... think again !
So where have SQ's (and the other customers') teams been over the last years ?