Originally Posted by
toledoashley
MOL has been talking up transatlantic recently - complaining that the middle eastern airlines had taken all the slots for wide bodied aircraft...
Maybe the A350 cancellation by Emirates is what they need, 50 A350's is just the sort of aircraft he was looking for.
He doesn't have to wait for A350s. There is B777-300ER availability
even sooner. The issue is not simply aircraft availability, it's aircraft availability at a distressed price (like the Ryanair 737 order after Sept 11 2001). From Ryanair's point of view, demand for long-haul widebodies (and pricing) is distressingly robust at present.