Interview – Bernard Lathiere

Fifteen years ago Airbus Industrie was merely the name for a newly launched aspirant to the commercial aircraft manufacturing scene. Even a decade ago when the prototype A300 first took to the air Airbus Industrie was still a fledgling standing in the shadows of the North American giants, Boeing, Lockheed and Douglas. Today, the situation has changed with now only one American company offering viable competition to the European consortium. To gain an insight into the current and projected thinking of the world’s newest producer of wide-bodied airframes, AUSTRALIAN AVIATION interviewed Airbus Industrie President Bernard Lathiere.

JT: It is ten years since the first A300 took to the skies, at that time did you anticipate the success the Airbus project would be in the following decade?

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