Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: Pete Mellor Subject: Northwest cancels Airbus X-Submission-Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 10:36:45 GMT Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <9660.9212081036@csrsun8.cs.city.ac.uk> Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Date: 08 Dec 92 15:51:19 PST BBC Radio 4 news, 0700 GMT today:- Northwest Airlines has cancelled orders for 50 A320s and 14 A340s in a cost-cutting exercise. This was described as a serious blow to the European aircraft industry. Peter Mellor, Centre for Software Reliability, City University, Northampton Sq., London EC1V 0HB, Tel: +44(0)71-477-8422, JANET: p.mellor@city.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------------------