PARIS, April 10 - Airbus said Monday said that after receiving complaints from potential buyers, it would look at making improvements to its long-range A350 jet, which competes with Boeing"s new 787 Dreamliner.

"I want to note that Airbus listens to its customers," Gustav Hubert, the Airbus chief executive, told reporters at company headquarters in Toulouse, France.

His comments came after Chew Choon Seng, the chief executive of Singapore Airlines , said last week that Airbus should have gone ahead and designed a new fuselage for the A350, since it had already designed a new wing, tail and cockpit for it. Singapore Airlines is expected to announce a major order for wide-body jetliners in early May.

In addition, Steven Udvar-Hazy, chief executive of International Lease Finance, a major customer of Airbus, said recently that the company ought to widen the fuselage and redesign the wing on the A350.

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