Airbus delivered its first A350-1000 passenger jet to Qatar Airways on Tuesday at the jetmaker’s headquarters here. The «dash 1000» variant of the A350 is now the largest twin-engine jet Airbus has ever produced.
The jet was initially to be delivered late last year, but complications installing the airline’s new Qsuite business class seats forced the target date to slip into the new year. The new seats have already been installed in some of Qatar’s other aircraft, but it took than expected to adapt the new-design to the newer A350-1000s.
"It is very difficult to install a new program in a new airplane, especially the first one," Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker said at a press conference prior to the delivery…
