Qatar make Airbus pay for A350 delays as they play hardball in Dubai but at the end of the day, and as we have been saying for two years now – how are airlines going to finance all these aircraft?

What a great 48 hours at the Dubai air show it has been – The Qatar Airways deal – the centrepiece of the Dubai Air Show for Airbus – has been on and off more times than I am able to report, with Al Barker, CEO of Qatar Airways playing Airbus off against Boeing – the difference being that this time it has all spilled out into the open. The A320neo order (first reported here two weeks ago along with the ACG order that was also announced today) was all but cancelled late yesterday but then today, after the Qatar