Qatar Airways is seeking $618 million in damages from plane maker Airbus in a row over surface corrosion of its A350 planes, a court document showed on Thursday.
The company is also demanding an additional compensation of $4 million for each day it stopped operating its 21 aircraft of this type, by order of the Qatari regulators, due to this defect, which includes corrosion and holes in the lightning protection surface.
She said Qatar AirwaysLast month, it began taking action in a British court once morest European planemaker Airbus in a bid to resolve a dispute over surface damage to the A350 planes.
The company added in a statement, that all its attempts to reach a constructive solution with Airbus regarding the rapid deterioration of the surface of the Airbus A350 aircraft, which negatively affects it, have failed.
The company stated that, accordingly, Qatar Airways had no alternative but to seek a quick solution to this dispute through the judiciary.
