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Credit: Airbus
There was considerable drama at the very beginning: Airbus was dead set on delivering the first A350 in the 2014 calendar year to show that it could stick to a schedule. But it had to convince launch operator Qatar Airways—and CEO Akbar Al Baker in particular—that the aircraft was indeed ready to be...
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