Qatar Air Denies Owing Airbus $220 Million for Rejected A350s
- No breach of contract given surface quality lapses: Qatar Air
- EASA hasn’t undertaken extensive analysis, airline claims
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Qatar Airways denied it owes Airbus SE $220 million in compensation for failing to accept A350 deliveries, in the latest salvo in a bitter legal dispute.
The Gulf carrier said in documents made public Monday that it didn’t break its contract with Airbus when it refused to take two of the wide-body jets, and said the planemaker hadn’t properly explained how it arrived at the figure.