Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: Robert Dorsett Subject: Re: Northwest cancels Airbus X-Submission-Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 19:32:23 CST References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Reply-To: rdd@rascal.ics.utexas.edu Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: Date: 09 Dec 92 18:45:32 PST >Their 16 A330s were not affected, but they aren't scheduled to receive >any of those until 1997, so they felt no need to address that plane in >this agreement. The 1997 figure was apparently arrived at in September, when they deferred the A330 deliveries (originally scheduled between 1994 and 1996) to 1997 to 1999. >With these cancellations, it is suspected that the bases will not be >built, and NWA will fly their planes to Europe for C/D checks. Of >course, they already have received and spent the operating loan.... It'll be interesting to see what ramifications this has on the UAL deal: did United plan on using Airbus/NWA North American facilities? R.