resorts and cruise ships worldwide. or have you found a domain side of. the picture that shows the w in your room you can see the great prize go to the d w dot com travel quiz. when the week began it looked like the end for the airbus three eighty airbus was preparing to stop production of the world s biggest passenger jet due to lack of orders but by thursday emirates ordered up to thirty six of the super jumbos for a total of sixteen billion dollars on twitter the emirates c.e.o. called the a three eighty critical for his company and the united arab emirates to like to steal the show so confidently we re approaching the future and how determined we also forge ahead to buy wants to keep growing the become
billion dollars it comes as a big relief for the european aircraft maker because eliot this week apple c.e.o. john levy had admitted the a three eighty program would have to be discontinued if a deal with dubai based didn t happen soon on the a three eighty the largest passenger plane in the world has proven to be too big for many carriers turning apis proud this project into something of a nightmare for the company. but looks like that nightmare is over at least for the time being let s find out what s in store for the future of the a three eighty coast of course my colleague and our very own aviation guru is here with me in the studio is the f.a.a. to protect saved well that s the way john lee put it at least for the next ten years and some years more up until the twenty s thirty s the project will be continued as he said without the emirates deal you mentioned that production may
growth to continue twenty eighteen or more sustainable pace of around four percent tourism is one of the world s leading export sectors so the growth is welcome news it could lead to more job creation in trouble and hospitality interest in asian countries. they go wider faster the a three eighty was supposed to be nothing less than a revolution of a global air travel its model planes equipped with cocktail lounge and gym but the two story super jumbo was a slow seller right from the start and now it could phase the end of production all together as most important customer emirates simply isn t ordering enough planes to keep the a three eighty program a life. what was hoped to be the company s biggest success is turning into a disappointing defeat with just over three hundred planes sold and few on order airbus says it will stop making the a three eighty super jumbo if it doesn t get more business from top client emirates which is now buying planes from boeing
back production last year at the twenty eight of the giant passenger jets and twenty eighteen it s only planning on manufacturing twelve a three eighty s and just nine and twenty nineteen. you have a bus and then mocked we are adjusting to market fluctuations that s pretty standard in this business you have to take the long view of the a three eighty has now been around a long time and will continue to develop it in the coming years after that we ll be able to ramp up production again. and. their boss wants to win new customers with new designs one of its technical developments is an improved wing let the end of the wing that arches up nearly vertically the plane manufacturer says by making it larger they ve reduced both drag and fuel consumption by four percent and all airbus engineers have also altered the interior of the plane. we re using the whole cabin on both decks more efficiently and that s made space for eighty additional
rarely hit by asteroids when people try to flee the combat zone the shot by asked snipers or they step on i-s. mines o.b.b. traps many have died that way. and. the syrian democratic forces will win the battle for rocca but it s not over yet i guess is making a last desperate stand here the remains of a car bomb and i guess attempt to stop coalition forces advancing. the u.s. led coalition says it won t accept the surrender of ai as militants so the remaining jihadists probably won t get out of rocca alive. all right i want to hand you over back to garrett now and he has a story about the dubious record of the biggest passenger plane in the sky that s right exactly a decade ago the first a three eighty was delivered it s the largest passenger