INTERVIEW-EADS in good shape despite setbacks-Germany's Hint
ju4 wa4i dia4n zo1ng he2 ba4o da4o :\n  By Gernot Heller\nBERLIN, May 25 (Reuters) - European aeronautics and defence\ngroup EADS <EAD.PA> and its Airbus subsidiary have dealt with\nthe problems on new Airbus models and are confident of success,\nGerman government aerospace spokesman Peter Hintze said on\nSunday.\nAhead of the Berlin Air Show on Tuesday, Hintze said new\ntechnologies can always run into problems and delays. He said\nthe aerospace sector would continue growing strongly.\n"I believe that Europe will hold onto its top position\ntogether with the United States," said Hintze, who is the\ngovernment's coordinator for the aerospace industry.\n"I'm certain that the A-380 will be a success around the\nworld," he added, referring to the new Airbus plane that has\nsuffered from production delays. The boom in the aerospace\nindustry is going to remain."\nHintze said he does not expect any serious long-term\nconsequences due to technology problems with new plane models\nfor Airbus -- or its U.S. rival Boeing.\nAirbus announced a fourth set of delays to the world's\nlargest airliner earlier this month, trimming production by one\nplane in 2008 and 4 in 2009.\nIt also left open the possibility of delays in the 2010\ndelivery schedule which has yet to be determined. Airbus said it\nwas too early to predict the financial fallout from the new\ndelays to the plane, which is already running two years late.\nHintze said new models, even the Boeing 747, suffered from\ndelays at first that nevertheless did not hurt their long-term\ncommercial success.\nHintze said he expects climate change to be a dominant issue\nat the Berlin Air Show at Schoenefeld airport starting on\nTuesday.\n"We've got to come up with solutions," he said.\n((Reporting Gernot Heller; writing by Erik Kirschbaum; editing\nby Elaine Hardcastle; Reuters messaging:\nerik.kirschbaum.reuters.com@reuters.net))\nKeywords: EADS GERMAMY/