UPS cancelled its order for the freight version of the Airbus A380 today, a year after competitor FedEx did. Parent company EADS has had its problems, but you can’t help but think about a possible solution to their problems, with the infighting going on.
Thinking back to a certain North American automaker, there is a person at the top that most certainly could offer something to EADs/Airbus, to help improve things over the next few years. Although Mullaly has only been at Ford for a few months, it is possible that since his entrance to the top job at Ford, that he may have second thoughts with the ability to turn the company around in the next year or 2, given the latest sales results, mortgaging the company, etc. Ford has said that it expects to turn around to profitability in 2009…if Mullaly can pull that off, wouldn’t a move to EADs/Airbus be the next logical solution, to moving up the corporate or industry ladder, especially given his background in aviation?
Ford had made the big step by bringing an outsider…could they continue on, if Mullaly left for bigger and better things at Airbus, his former company’s nemesis? Anti-competition issues aside, I am sure that Airbus would love to have Mullaly at its helm, and I am sure that Mullaly himself would seriously consider abandoning Ford, given the recent developments at Airbus/EADs.
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