Sponsored by Airbus, APOC Aviation, AEPS Ltd., AVITAS, BeauTech, CFM International, Clover Aviation Capital Company Limited, PGA Aviation, Regio Lease S.A.S., SMBC Aviation Capital Martin Woods, Head of Marketing - APAC, Airbus Phillip See, Chief Sustainability Officer, Malaysia Aviation Group Moderator: David Swan, Chief Operations & Sustainability Officer, SMBC Aviation Capitalīeatrice Cassou, Commercial Director (APAC), Titan Aviation Leasing Speaker: Chai Eamsiri, Chief Executive Officer, Thai Airways Moderator: Nat Vilasdechanon, Counsel, Clifford Chance Marilyn Gan, ISTAT Asia Co-Chair, Senior Vice President and Head of Asia Pacific, Vmo Aircraft Leasing Mary Prettyman, ISTAT President, Head of Marketing, Pratt & Whitney Speaker: John Duffy, Chief Commercial Officer, SKY Leasing Moderator: Ali Jahanshahi, Vice President, Marketing & Origination (APAC), Rolls-Royce & Partner Finance Interested in becoming a sponsor? Learn more here. But they did come to work this morning.All activities take place at The Athenee Hotel in Bangkok unless otherwise specified. “What does the transportation infrastructure look like? Then, even more fundamental than that is, can the employees get to work? I’m sure when I get back to the office tomorrow morning, we’ll have a better view. ![]() “I think the question that we haven’t had answered yet is ‘will they limit power?,” Albaugh continued. “I can tell you that our suppliers came out of the earthquake in pretty good shape,” he said. Albaugh reported no serious effects on Boeing’s big suppliers in the country, namely Mitsubishi, Kawasaki and Fuji Heavy Industries. His thoughts then turned to the earthquake in Japan, where, of course, a number of Boeing suppliers reside. However, Albaugh wouldn’t venture a guess when the airplane would meet its 8,000-nm range guarantee. “There are a lot of things we’re going to do to clean the airplanes up, a lot of things we’ll do with the engine manufacturers,” he said. He also said Boeing would take a “hard look” at raising the production rate of the 737 to 42 a month, because, as he put it, telling a blue-chip customer to come back in five or six or seven years for an airplane is “not the right answer.”įinally, Albaugh more or less unofficially “launched” the 787-10 at ISTAT, calling it a project in which he has “great interest” and one in which the economics would prove “eye watering.” Yet he admitted that its predecessor 787-8 will not meet its early weight and range goals. Meanwhile, Jim Albaugh, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, announced that first flight of the 747-8 Intercontinental would happen this Sunday (March 20), weather permitting. In fact, Shankland presented a graph that showed the A320 line running until 2028. Speaking in place of Leahy for Airbus, Andy Shankland, vice president of marketing, said he sees no end to the A320neo’s production run, notwithstanding the inevitable presence of replacement aircraft appearing by the middle of the next decade. Boeing and Airbus, if anything, will gravitate toward higher capacity narrowbodies, the thinking went. In fact, it appeared that many ISTAT attendees would tend to agree. ![]() He also insisted that the C Series does not compete against the Boeing 737NG or the Airbus A320neo, even though its seating range falls within the lower ends of the Boeing and Airbus models. Scott intends to do just that, starting this year, he said. Going around saying you’ve got a great airplane is one thing…but now its time to get out there and get some airplanes sold.” I’d be out selling the airplane,” quipped Steven Udvar Hazy, chairman and CEO of Air Lease Corporation. “Gary Scott’s a dear friend, I love him, but if I were him I wouldn’t be at this conference. To date, Bombardier has drawn orders for 90 C Series narrowbody jets, leading to the obvious question: from where will the rest come over the next two or three years? On Monday, March 14, the first conference day, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft president Gary Scott perhaps made the news of the show with a guarantee that Bombardier would sell as many C Series airplanes by the time it enters service as Airbus had sold A320s at the time in it entered service. Unfortunately, the presentations proved rather pedestrian and Airbus COO for customers John Leahy had to return to Toulouse to attend to some “pressing business,” leaving plenty of room for speculation, particularly about the single-aisle market. Apparently, the conference grows larger every year, and as incoming president Joe Ozimek noted, ISTAT has become America’s airshow–minus any equipment parked on an airport ramp and fighter jets flying overhead at ear-shattering altitudes. This week’s International Society of Transport Aircraft Traders (ISTAT) conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., drew some 1300 attendees–a new record.
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