Originally Posted by
DozyWannabe
All the articles I've read have JAL bigwigs making it very clear that this is not a response to the B787 issues. What they have said is that having a single-supplier fleet is now an anomaly in the civil aviation market, and JAL are simply following suit.
You would be correct about the senior exec's statements, but do bear in mind the extreme politeness of Japanese professionals. What they moved on to say, however, in the same presentation, was that they apologised to their customers (in particular) and others for the dislocation causes by the 787 situation. Now quite why such a seemingly unconnected comment was made at a press conference called to announce the A350 order you may care to consider .........
The bit about single-supplier is of course not correct. Probably the largest purchaser of airframes in Asia in recent years has been Air Asia - and they have bought exclusively Airbus. Ryanair and Southwest are exclusively Boeing. So not an anomaly at all.