Qatar Airways has been told by the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority to crushed 13 of its Airbus A350 planes due to the fact that of degradation of fuselage surfaces.
Qatar Airways said connected Thursday that it had been ordered by regulators successful the Gulf authorities to crushed 13 of its Airbus A350 craft implicit the accelerated degradation of fuselage surfaces.
The airline, 1 of the Gulf "big three" carriers, antecedently stopped accepting transportation of the aircraft implicit the issue, according to media reports successful June.
Qatar Airways said successful a connection that it had been forced to property out-of-service Airbus A330 craft backmost into cognition to capable the spread near by the grounding of the 13 aircraft.
Qatar Airways has 34 A350-900 types and 19 A350-1000s successful its fleet, according to an Airbus document.
"The hose is moving with its regulator to guarantee the continued information of each passengers... and pursuing the explicit written acquisition of (the airline's) regulator, thirteen craft person present been grounded," the hose said.
Qatar Airways is regulated by the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority.
The airline's main enforcement Akbar al-Baker said helium expects "Airbus treats this substance with the due attraction that it requires".
"Qatar Airways volition not judge thing different than craft that proceed to connection its customers the highest imaginable modular of information and the champion question acquisition that they deserve," helium said successful the statement.
"Qatar Airways expects Airbus to person established the basal origin and permanently corrected the underlying information to the restitution of Qatar Airways and our regulator earlier we instrumentality transportation of immoderate further A350 aircraft."
The connection said the hose was "cooperating with each the leasing companies affected by this A350 grounding who person started to inspect their impacted aircraft", without giving details of different affected parties.
Through the coronavirus pandemic, Qatar Airways positioned itself arsenic the starring hose for repatriating stranded travellers, winning plaudits from Britain and France among different countries whose emblem carriers were virtually mothballed.
More than fractional of the airline's fleet is made up of the mid-sized but long-range US-made Boeing 787 and French-built Airbus A350.
"We bash not remark connected our customers operations. As a starring craft manufacturer, we are ever successful talks with our customers. Those talks we support confidential," Airbus said successful a statement.
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