The head of European aerospace firm EADS has written to the seven main countries that have ordered its Airbus A400M military airlifter to ask them not to make it pay fines for delays, the Financial Times Deutschland reported on Tuesday.
Louis Gallois did not detail any concrete figures for further cost increases or time delays in the letter, which was a precursor to negotiations with customers in the coming weeks, the paper said.
But the FTD added that recent speculation that costs for the A400M programme would rise by up to 700 million euros ($981 million) was too low, citing industry information.
The paper quoted an insider as saying deliveries of the A400M could be two years later than originally scheduled.
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