One in six Airbus planes sold to China
Beijing - Europe's aircraft manufacturer Airbus SAS sold 78 planes, or 16 per cent of its global output, to Chinese carriers in 2009, Airbus China said Tuesday. Airbus' in-service fleet of 537 aircraft as of December accounted for 41 per cent of the ...
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Airbus reports all-time record plane sales
Paris - Airplane manufacturer Airbus sold more planes in 2009 than in its entire history, despite the harsh conditions surrounding the economic crisis, reported the La Tribune business newspaper Monday. The company delivered 498 airplanes in 2009, be...
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Airbus cost overruns greater than expected
BerlinThe Airbus military A400M military transport aircraft will cost 11.3 billion euros (16.7 billion dollars) more than planned, a German press report said Tuesday. Financial Times Deutschland said Airbus boss Thomas Enders plans to ditch the proje...
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Airbus makes emergency landing at US airport
New York - A United Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing Sunday at Newark Liberty International Airport, but all 53 people onboard were safe. The plane lurched to one side as the Airbus 319 landed with only two landing wheels in pla...
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Airbus announces record deliveries in 2009
Seville, Spain - European planemaker Airbus said Tuesday it had delivered 498 aircraft last year as a result beating the record set in 2008. The total deliveries in 2009 was 15 more than in 2008, said Airbus. ...
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Singapore Airlines to fly superjumbo A380 to Zurich
Singapore - Singapore Airlines on Thursday said it would start to fly the Airbus A380 superjumbo jet to Zurich from March 28. The Swiss city would be the third city in Europe and the seventh worldwide to receive the A380 aircraft in its network, the ...
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Airbus ministers discuss A400M funding at London meeting
London - Senior officials from countries involved in the European Airbus project made a renewed attempt in London Thursday to end the uncertainty over the funding for the Airbus A400M transport plane, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said. The...
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Airbus marks delivery of 6,000th plane
Hamburg - Airbus, the European jet plane company, delivered on Monday the 6,000th aircraft it has made to the airline Emirates. Adel al-Redha, deputy chief executive of Emirates, picked up the giant A-380 plane in the German city of Hamburg. His Duba...
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Airbus to meet with governments over troubled A400m plane
Berlin - Representatives of the seven nations that have ordered the A400M transport plane from Airbus are to meet with the firms managers Thursday, in an effort to resolve strife over the delays and rising costs of the project. Production of the mili...
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Yemeni airlines seal 700 mln dollar deal for 10 new Airbus 320s
Sakhir, Bahrain - Yemenia, the official carrier of Yemen, has sealed a deal with Airbus on Thursday to buy 10 Airbus aircraft, at a cost of 700 million US dollars. The deal was signed by the Sana-based airliner and Airbus officials on the sidelines o...
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Crisis talks over transporter plane deadlocked in Berlin
Berlin - Make-or-break talks on the future of the troubled Airbus A400M military transport aircraft project deadlocked in Berlin on Friday, with Germany insisting it would not pay for cost overruns. The chiefs of Airbus and its parent company EADS ha...
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French company obtains approval for Airbus maintenance in Sudan
Sakhir, Bahrain - Paris-based Europe Aviation said Friday that it has obtained approval to perform Airbus A320 and A330 aircraft line maintenance at Khartoum airport in Sudan. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the Bahrain International Ai...
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Report: Resolution seen in European military transporter crisis
Paris - The funding crisis over the troubled Airbus A400M military transport plane is nearing a resolution, the French daily Le Figaro reported Wednesday in its online edition. According to the report, negotiations for an agreement between Airbus par...
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Airbus announces first price rise in two years
Paris - European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said Friday the continuing strength of the euro against the dollar has forced it to increase the prices of its planes by an average of 5.8 per cent. We have tried to keep prices down for as long as we ca...
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Airbus expects Asian airlines to buy 8,000 aircraft
Singapore - European aircraft manufacturer Airbus on Wednesday said it expected Asia-Pacific airlines to purchase some 8,000 new passenger and cargo aircraft worth 1.2 trillion US dollars over the next 20 years. The demand would count for one third o...
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