Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: pal@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Peter Loibl) Subject: Re: Northwest cancels Airbus X-Submission-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:41:31 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-ID: Date: 17 Dec 92 13:27:31 PST drinkard@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Terrell D. Drinkard) writes: >In article rdd@rascal.ics.utexas.edu writes: >> >>It'll be interesting to see what ramifications this has on the UAL deal: >>did United plan on using Airbus/NWA North American facilities? >> >It is my understanding from chatting with the maintenance engineers at UAL >on separate occassions that UAL is forming an A320 maintenance group (I >have a resume in, therefore might not be considered an unbiased observer) >which may be based at their new maintenance facility in Indianapolis. BTW: The Sueddeutsche Zeitung here in Germany (one of the best ones here) wrote yesterday, that UA is negotiating with Boeing about delays and cancellations of their orders. No other details given. Peter Loibl pal@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de