Posts Tagged ‘Airbus’

BA Jet Makes Emergency Landing After Engine Fire

  A British Airways Airbus A319 with 80 people on board made an emergency landing at London’s Heathrow airport on Friday after the right engine burst into flames shortly after take-off and the casing ripped away from...


Airbus Wins Oman Air Order For Three A330s

  Oman Air Airbus A330-300. Airbus has won an order for three A330-300 aircraft from Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, the European plane maker said on Wednesday. The order, which Airbus said would b...



Airbus A350 Could Fly At Paris Air Show

  Airbus could steal the Paris air show with a flypast of its newest passenger jet, the A350, as confidence grows over a first flight in about four weeks. The timescales of its previous airliner launches suggests the Europ...


Kuwait Air Signs 25 Plane Airbus Deal

  Kuwait Airways said it had signed an initial agreement with Airbus to buy 25 new aircraft and take an option on 10 more in the biggest overhaul of its fleet since the 1990 Iraqi invasion. The order for the new planes inc...



First A350 XWB Painting Completed in Toulouse

The aircraft painting was achieved in less than seven days and follows the recent completion of MSN001’s flight-test-instrumentation (FTI) verification. Painting of the first A350 XWB “MSN001” was today fully completed as ...


Kuwait Airways To Sign Airbus Deal

  State-run Kuwait Airways will spend 850 million dinars (USD$2.98 billion) on 25 new Airbus jets and aims to lease a further 13 to upgrade its fleet, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Sunday. Daily Al-Watan cited sources cl...