a billion dollars each few buying it. it s the largest passenger plane in the world the a three eighty years the pride and joy of the european aircraft group airbus but as orders for the a three eighty kept plummeting the group was forced to reduce annual production from thirty to just eight aircraft this year and those eight have yet to be delivered. quantas dropping the planes represents a four billion u.s. dollars loss for the european aircraft manufacturer and it s raised doubts about the future of the three d. itself the australian airline ordered the jets in two thousand and six but since then they ve switched to lighter more fuel efficient passenger jets a worldwide trend the a three eighty is too heavy and uses too much jet fuel which wouldn t be as much of a problem if fuel prices had gone down but instead they ve almost doubled since twenty sixteen. so it s not surprising that another major air bus customer is
a cash cow with a price tag of nearly half a billion dollars it s been a steadily a steady contributor to the company s revenue and overall air bus has managed to put two hundred thirty four of the super jumbos in the air not bad at all but the golden times of roughly eighty orders per year those are all but over the three years of ups and downs the books are almost empty even worse orders are being cancelled with quantas airways scrapping their eight super jumbos and emirates reconsidering its own orders a three eighty could soon be gone for good. now on to germany germany s federal cartel office has ruled that facebook s ability to to rake in personal information outside of its namesake platform that is across the internet and its various other apps represented and competitive behavior and that s one more blow for the tech giant. the focus was on the day shift facebook collects from third party websites examples include the like and share buttons
to have women pilots and for sixty percent of all student pilots at the airline were women the issue of gender imbalance in aviation was a hot topic among over two hundred airlines represented at the iata meeting joyce who care and pain for marriage equality in australia said ensuring a diverse workforce in general could help drive profits if you re not tapping into the first the inclusion you re going to be on at disadvantage you know we re all looking for the best talent out there and if so maryland s and some companies are only looking for males and those roles are not going to do well because you get the best and the best people in the best job you re going to perform there he credited the turnaround in quantas his fortunes in recent years as a partly due to the airline s diversity policy. bulgaria is a significant player in the production of roses split in the country s famous rose valley adverse weather conditions and overproduction are now threatening the
defended his remarks saying that qatar airways was the first airline in the region to have women pilots and that sixty percent of all student pilots at the airline were women the issue of gender imbalance in aviation was a hot topic among over two hundred a lines represented at the meeting joyce who care and pain for marriage equality in australia said ensuring a diverse workforce in general could help drive profits if you re not tapping into the first inclusion you re going to be on a disadvantage you know we re all looking for the best talent out there and if so mary alliance and some companies are only looking for males and those roles are not going to do well because you get the best and the best people in the best jobs you re going to perform there he credited the turnaround in quantas his fortunes in recent years as a partly due to the airline s diversity policy. bulgaria is
we ll keep our eye on this all night, appreciate it. there is more happening tonight, susan with the 360 bulletin. iraq s prime minister maliki is offering amnesty except to those who killed kurtish forces. a 21-year-old woman shot in new orleans died. she was one of ten gunned down on bourbon street. police have identified 20-year-old justin odom as a person of interest. they are asking the public for help in finding him. a quantas flight had to turn back after a water pipe sprung a leak. economy class passengers got drenched but no one was in danger. it happened about an hour into the flight. with bad weather expected from tropical storm arthur, boston is not taking chances.