A350 timeline: Countdown to first delivery
The maiden delivery – a -900 powered, as all A350s will be, by two Rolls-Royce Trent XWBs – is expected to be followed by entry into service on 15 January, between Doha and Frankfurt. Qatar has a total of 43 -900s on order and 37 of the larger -1000. The carrier’s chief executive, Akbar Al Baker, has described the imminent delivery as “a moment of great symbolic national pride for the state of Qatar.
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