COO John Leahy discusses Airbus' future

Airbus COO John Leahy discusses the challenges of aircraft manufacturing.

There is a reason and there are only 2 major manufactures in world today is Airbus and Boeing build aircraft 100 seats and above, it is difficult to do, because you don't just need to get airplane into the air, you have to get within fractions of percent of the fuel burn predictions the range, the way we have been to promising people, and then you are gonna do a lots thing, you gotta build reliably, and it would get into service, it's gotta to fly with 99.5%*ability.

I just have mentioned those two issues, let's talk about how to oversee the situation in Syria, has to another spike in the fuel prices, this means that the fuel efficiency is paramount.

Absolutely, and that's why we bring out our A380 family including single love family,in the new version the nail new engine option, it takes the proven reliability in fuel efficiency with A320, and we do sustain that fuel burn by over 15%, when fuel prices go up, it's a two-edge sword, yes, the airlines maybe aren't making as much money, but they drives the need to replace that older kit with new aircraft, you know, to afford.

A380 is not still the answer to the capacity constraints as we have seen particularly in this part of the world.

Absolutely, I'm going out after we finish the interview to hit through to get on our airplane and you think about that air-traffic doubles in 15 years, I'm going to look around hit through and say how can we get twice as airplanes, you can't, you can't get 20% more airplanes * in fact if we can't get 10% more airplanes then are use it to be the maximum capacity, so what did you do? It has to be a bigger aircraft, it has to.

We see all the the catastrophe surrounding Boeing, problems in the dream line 787s. How many industry perspective or lessons can be learned?

Well, what you have to do is get it right at the first time, and the airlines get very frustrated, if you bring them new technology product but the reliability is not there, we are watching the mistake they are making and hopefully we are not gonna make the same ones, we have all mistakes with the A380 program, we start a little bit with reliability beginning with that, we've got that fixed now,and we are going to great pains right now with A350 program, to make sure it's mature on day one we deliver it next year, the airline are unanimous in saying, it's not just the numbers in terms of performance, it's the numbers in terms of reliability, we can't afford an airplane that takes 5 years to get mature in the field.