The fight for supremacy between Boeing and
Airbus is once again hitting the headlines.
Just last month, Qatar Airways cancelled an
order for its first Airbus A320 Neo - it said
production delays let them invoke a cancellation
clause.
The company’s CEO telling me its a situation
he can’t stand.
"Extremely frustrating, you can't imagine
how upset I am when I wake up in the morning
and know that I'm still short of airplanes
and I have so much demand of passengers to
operate into those new markets."
Akbar Al-Baker also said he was in talks with
Boeing and its new 737 MAX
"Well we are talking to Boeing seriously about
Max aircraft and hopefully..maybe in one of
our joint ventures we could take a large number
of Max."
Qatar’s CEO also weighed in on the uncertainty
surrounding the UK and it leaving the European
Union.
"But keep in mind that when the pound if low
more passengers will travel to UK and this
is exactly what we want also." So you see
this as a potential opportunity?
"We always seek opportunities and we always
grab into those opportunities."
At the Farnborough International Air Show
I’m Phil Han for CNBC.
