Skymark Airlines (BC, Tokyo Haneda) has reportedly abandoned a firm order with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for six A380-800s. Quoting sources close to the talks, Bloomberg says the Japanese domestic carrier can no longer afford to take delivery of the jets and is currently in talks with the Europeans ranging from a possible delayed delivery to compensation should the order be cancelled outright.
Ordered in 2011, Skymark was to have become the first Japanese airline to operate the type. The first A380, JA380A (cn 162), was to have arrived in either August or September of this year with plans to use them on its maiden longhaul flights from Tokyo Narita to New York JFK and Europe.
