Airbus in running to buy Safe Air unit

[HamiltonWest]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news ... d=11466238

[omitchell]

There goes the neighbourhood...

[Ian Warren]

ARBUSTED AGAIN If ya can't sell the plane buy the bloody country !
"The Toulouse-based planemaker is in line to bid to replace New Zealand's ageing Hercules fleet with its new heavy military transport aircraft, the A400M, when tenders are opened within the next few years."

[HamiltonWest]

Air New Zealand sells Blenheim's Safe Air to Airbus
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industr ... -to-airbus

[Ian Warren]

Reading the about job cuts over the last decade, be interesting to see if they can increase a pattern, I knew a few SAFE blokes who walked around the same time late 90s, two were regulars in Christchurch , I know one who moved to Australia to BAe at Richmond .. so maybe it may have an affect.