Posts Tagged ‘Airbus’
Airbus, Boeing Feud Over Seat Width
A row has flared up between Boeing and Airbus over the width of economy class seats on long-haul flights, setting the tone for a bitter confrontation at this month’s Dubai Airshow. The dispute focuses on the width ...
Qatar Air Says Airbus A350 On Schedule
Qatar Airways, the launch customer for the Airbus A350, expects the European plane maker to start delivering the aircraft by the second half of next year, the airline’s chief executive said on Tuesday. The Gulf car...
Airbus Deals To Retrofit A320 Wingtips
Airbus has introduced plans to retrofit gasoline-saving wingtips on older variations of its A320 jets as gross sales of its best possible-promoting plane hit 10,000. The transfer will see wingtips, which have change into...
Airbus To Deliver Minimum 25 A380s A Year
Airbus has kept its 2013 goals for the A380 despite a shortage of orders, but struck a more cautious note for future years, according to a newspaper interview. Chief executive Fabrice Bregier told French newspaper Les Ec...
Airbus Looking At A380 After Slow Sales
Airbus is to consider ways to make its A380 superjumbo more attractive to customers, according to a report in Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. The report quoted Thomas Enders, the group chief executive of ...
Airbus Faces A380 Decisions After Orders Drop
Airbus is poised to review its A380 superjumbo after a drop in orders and has not ruled out shaving output of the world’s largest airliner while waiting for the economy to recover. Despite aggressive marketing, sal...