Airbus A350 Updates

We have some rumors that the A350 is significantly overweight, to the tune of about 8 tonnes.

I'm inclined to believe that it is overweight at this point, much of the work in development at this point is about refining the design and saving weight, but 8 tonnes on an aircraft with an empty weight somewhere around of 105 tonnes, even at this relatively early stage, seems to be excessive.

Related to this, Airbus is announcing that it will be able to, "finalise the A350 XWB's 'aero-lines'" in July, but that it will continue to "refine" the wing of the A350-1000, the largest, and last to be delivered, variant over the next two years.

Airbus is claiming no "major" changes for the -1000 wing, simply mods to the pylons and the high lift devices (flaps and slats), but with 20% greater max gross weight, I'm inclined that some more significant differences may creep in over the next 2 years.