John Leahy helped Airbus push Boeing out of the number one position in plane
sales. Can the best salesman in the business keep Europe at the top?
Read the speical Reuter's report on the man who sold the sky!
One warm July evening three years ago,
John Leahy set off along London’s river
Thames in an electric punt. With Leahy, a
sharp and energetic New Yorker who has
been Airbus sales chief since 1994, were
the company’s Middle East president Habib
Fekih and Tim Clark, president of Emirates
Airlines, one of the fastest-growing airlines
in the world.
Dubai-based Emirates was the largest
customer for Airbus’s A380 superjumbo but
Leahy wanted Clark to confirm his support
for the A350, Airbus’s bid to compete with Boeing's drealiner - the report continues here.
