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He said he had just turned down two new planes Airbus offered, opting instead for a slightly used Boeing 747.

Regulators simply asked Airbus to watch the problem and report back in a year.

He said there was no reason why companies other than Boeing and Airbus could not enter the business.

I work on aircraft for Airbus, the whole thing -- I do all this sort of stuff trying to force these natural, inspired-by-nature dreams home.

Airbus comes to the Singapore Airshow as it celebrates 40 Years of Innovation since the launch of its first aircraft programme.

This push from Mr Sarzoky led to a more sensible regime, with a Frenchman running EADS and a German at the controls of Airbus.

But Airbus customers went gaga over the new jet, which won't even be ready to enter service until the fall of 2015.

So, instead of bringing a more businesslike approach, Airbus seems to be going backwards.

But for the moment what matters most for Airbus is that the market stays strong and that it gets to grips with its costs.

Airbus had to abandon the original, more modest version of the A350 when its main customers complained that it was no match for the 787.

The powerful jolt of electricity passed right through the body of the Airbus A380 before shooting out to continue its journey to the ground.

French private aircraft manufacturer Airbus recently announced their newest conceptual cabin in London.

Air France has stressed that Airbus had not made the replacement of the speed monitors on immediate safety requirement.

"Unless Airbus turns out to be a commercial disappointment then it's virtually impossible, " notes Morris.

Mr Enders said Airbus would defend its leading market position and that it was doubtful there would be room for six competitors.

Airbus will bring its mid-size long-range aircraft to the market in 2013, five years later than Boeing's 787 and a year later than expected.

No doubt Airbus will claw back some lost ground with orders at the Paris show, but the underlying trend is a Boeing bounce-back.

An Air France Airbus A330-200 flying to France from Brazil went down in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board, on 31 May.

Airbus cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this email as it has been sent over public networks.

An Airbus spokesman declined to comment on the cancellations, but referred to the actual order book posted online.

Bombardier's Scott says that with the CSeries the company is addressing a sector of the market Airbus and Boeing "have long ignored" .

Airbus said it had sent a team of specialists to Singapore and would make a further statement as soon as details were confirmed.

Tom Enders, Airbus chief executive, said increasing A380 production "remains our biggest challenge for the next two years" .

Initially at least, Comac's ambitious goal will not bring it into direct competition with Airbus and Boeing.

But the flight is just as much an event in Airbus's fierce battle for supremacy with Boeing , its US rival .

Group of defense of European space navigation is the parent company of an airbus company of the name.

No delegation from Spain turned up for the Airbus ministerial meeting in Paris and no explanation was provided for the Spanish absence.

However, with two companies competing for the natural monopoly, life is always tough for either Boeing or Airbus.

A LONG-RUNNING row between Boeing and Airbus over the extent of state assistance to the two firms may be brought closer to a resolution.

"Taking on Airbus and Boeing is for the brave or those with very deep pockets, " he said.

The planned growth in production at the Airbus factory in Tianjinhas the company's employees in Europe worried they may soon be out work.

However, the loan balance was forgiven even if Airbus did not sell enough aircraft, he added.

TAM airline executives said the Airbus 320 aircraft was in perfect condition and the pilots were experienced .

In the run-up to this year's Paris Air Show in June, Airbus released its vision of creature comforts for the airliner of 2050.

The world's airlines and their passengers have been the big winners out of the arrival of Airbus to challenge Boeing.

Apply Airbus central procurement policies and procedures, ensuring compliance across the business.

So instead of pressing forward with a radical redesign, Airbus plumped for a more limited upgrade.

An Airbus statement said the plane went into service in 1990 and had accumulated 51, 900 flight hours.

Investigators also reported that the airline had failed to replace a part as recommended by the manufacturer, Airbus.

"A global issue needs a global solution, " said the Airbus spokesman, who called the plan "a bureaucratic tiger. "

This may yet prove to be true, as even Airbus has opted to follow Boeing, switching to plastic in its new aircraft.

The airport terminal is also ready to accommodate the Airbus 380, the world's largest commercial plane.

When the dust clears from the sensational order boom (at least for Airbus) in Paris, perhaps reality will crowd in.

He said this when his airline started offering casinos and double beds on it six new Airbus A380 planes.

An Airbus executive observes that the legal battle could end in one of three ways. The two sides could negotiate a settlement.

It was also, he added, "a crucial vehicle to transform Airbus" and the test-bed for a new industrial approach.

An Air France Airbus A330 jet crashed at sea on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris last week, killing all 228 people on board.

But it may embolden other countries to consider action against the European trading scheme. Airbus declined to comment.

European plane maker Airbus unveiled its restructuring plan Wednesday, including up to 10-thousand job cuts.

China has never attempted to hide its desire to enter a market dominated by Boeing of the US and Europe's Airbus.

Airbus employees made up the majority of the 474 passengers on board the first of a series of test flights this week.

Boeing and Airbus may have learnt a thing or two from the global supply chains of Brazil's Embraer.

And now it has announced it will not be installing bassinets in the luxury areas of its new Airbus A380 super jumbos.

This dispute has rumbled on since the late 1980s, when Airbus first started to weaken America's dominance of the commercial aircraft market.

Barely six months later, while everyone was admiring the plane's first flight, Airbus slipped out news of a six-month delay in deliveries.

In December two Airbus executives were charged in connection with a long-running insider-dealing investigation by French authorities.

This seemed essential, even though the only feasible competitor - the Airbus Military C-295 - was of Spanish origin.

Management is struggling to get Airbus back on track after cost overruns and delays with its new jetliners.

The Airbus A320 NEO will be a premium version offered with a choice of two engines boasting new technology.

Those practices are helping China build an aviation industry capable of competing with Boeing and Airbus, the report says.

The Airbus 310 plane was carrying 142 passengers, including at least three babies, and a crew of 11 Yemenis.

Airbus is now building its first aircraft final assembly line outside Europe in Tianjin, a northern Chinese port city.

He has built his family a 27-story luxury apartment block in Mumbai, gifted his wife an Airbus jet and has his own all-star cricket team.

Since the end of 2007, more than four-fifths of the wide-body jets that Airbus has delivered have been A330 models.

Airbus's A320, a single-aisle aircraft, was eating into Boeing's market share, and the board had decided to take on Airbus in a price war.

Airbus identified the plane's serial number as 535, and said it was sending a team of specialists to the Comoros.

Airbus further reported that while the offset would have been measurable, it would not have been noticeable under normal operations.

Airbus, meanwhile, accuses Boeing of receiving a whopping subsidy in the form of military contracts.

Mr Sarkozy is right to insist that any deal should not interfere with Airbus's difficult recovery plan.

China is one of the biggest target markets globally for both Boeing and Airbus.

China Aviation Industry Hafei Group Chairman Pang Jianhe Airbus China president Laurence Barron in a joint venture contract was signed.

Boeing is enjoying record sales of its 787 Dreamliner, but Airbus had to go back to the drawing board to redesign its riposte, the A350.

The LAP is an integral part of the standard documentation package provided to AIRBUS customers.

Such problems had led Air France to begin replacing older sensors on some of its Airbus planes, but not the one that crashed.

Boeing's and Airbus's biggest customer, though, is likely to be sticking to the sidelines.

This investigation will determine whether there's enough evidence to put Airbus on trial.

Because Airbus launches its recovery plan that would surely bring a great amount of profit in the foreseeable future.

Most of its costs are in euros and its sales are in dollars, which handicaps Airbus by 20% compared with Boeing, says Mr Gallois.

Airbus needs to trim production in Europe by selling factories to suppliers or bringing them in as risk-sharing partners.

Airbus unions yesterday threatened serious disruption over plans by the world's second- largest aircraft maker to cut up to 10, 000 jobs.

The report was not made public. Although Boeing, its rival, declared victory, Airbus said that 70% of America's claims had been rejected.

Airbus declined to discuss compensation, saying: "We are paying the cost of the repairs. The details are private. "

They encompass design features derived from experience, techniques borrowed from Airbus design, computer simulation and customer input.

Over the longer term, China has openly said it intends to replace both Boeing and Airbus by unveiling its own homegrown jumbo jet by 2020.

In the Airbus verdict and again this week, the WTO gave no guidance on how the sins it exposed should be remedied.

There is no compelling reason why Airbus should be yoked to EADS, a weak defence company subject to government meddling.

To overcome their crisis EADS and Airbus need new models not just in the sky, but on the ground, too.

Perhaps no other company understands the meaning of diversity better than Airbus.

EVA Air has been operating for more than two decades with a mixed fleet of Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas aircraft.

Airbus and Boeing were able to tout minor victories for their next generation of aircraft at the Beijing show.

You may have noticed that the Airbus Company has also made clarification on the issue, saying that the relevant report is sheer fiction.

"The days of the duopoly with Airbus are over, " Jim Albaugh, head of Boeing's civil aircraft division, said at the Paris Air Show in June.

It seems unavoidable that Airbus executives will now face questions about safety at the air show.

But it said that some of the subsidies, including the Nasa contracts and some tax breaks, had had a serious impact on Airbus' interests.

Airbus's relationships with its suppliers is another thorny issue.

Firstly, EADS has said that as part of its Vision 2020 plan it will balance the revenues generated by Airbus and its other divisions.

Two years after A380 deliveries started, Airbus officials say the plane's production costs still outstrip its selling price.

On top of the new airliner's production snags , Airbus must also cope with the weak dollar and Boeing's new-found competitiveness.

The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger plane, makes aviation history with its maiden flight over Europe's Pyrenees mountains.

And the long-awaited Airbus A400M, a military cargo plane, is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget.

Several EU governments provided financing for Airbus in the form of grants and loans.

Airbus is due to announce next week a programme to reduce production costs by about Euros2 billion ($3. 5 billion) a year by 2010.

In a sign of its high expectations for the Chinese market, Airbus launched a private jet cabin concept dubbed 'Phoenix. '

In late 2007, the board of Gulf Air, the national airline of the oil-rich kingdom of Bahrain, picked Airbus for a huge sale.

Airbus had attributed the extrusion failures to the lack of a backup seal or the effects of aging on the seals.

Airbus' developers also envision the air travel of the future as an exceedingly clean affair.

The plane, belonging to Afriqiyah Airways, was an Airbus A330, BBC said.

Airbus offers a wide choice of aircraft suitable for every airline concept and network - domestic, regional and long-haul.

The Airbus A320, with a slick glossy fuselage and traditional Koru symbol on the tail, begins domestic service in February.

This may require going further in imitating Boeing's risk-sharing partner (RSP) model than Airbus seems willing to contemplate.

The North Wales factory that makes Airbus wings is rated as the firm's best site, and will retain wing design and final assembly.

Not long ago, it was Airbus that was strapped to a seat in cattle class and being pelted with airline food.

The production capacity of the Airbus final assembly line project in Tianjin is increasing continuously.

The assembly line, 51 percent controlled by Airbus, is expected to employ more than 600 people, half out of whom have already been hired.

FOR most of the year the news from Toulouse, headquarters of Airbus, ranged from bad to worse.

Under the contract, the joint venture will be set up in 2009 for wide-body Airbus A350XWB aircraft parts and components production projects.

Also Tuesday, Airbus union leaders threatened further strikes after meeting in Brussels to coordinate strategies.

Airbus company is the subsidiary below division of company of spaceflight of European aviation matters pertaining to defense.

But Bombardier now has Boeing at its side, claiming that Airbus's engine plan does not make financial sense.

Despite bulging order books, the mood at Airbus and Boeing is far from celebratory .

Airbus has had delays with its huge, new A-Three-Eighty passenger plane.

Airbus and Boeing have declared their almost total dominance of the market for large commercial aircraft is over.

For the year so far, Toulouse, France-based Airbus delivered 298 planes, compared with 263 for Boeing.

The fate of Airbus now depends as much on political courage as on managerial expertise.

But Airbus does not believe the technology is currently available to make a big enough leap forward to justify spending that much.

Airbus's factories are scattered over France, Germany, Spain and Britain, hampering efforts to follow suit.

But two factors have made it hard for Airbus and Boeing to continue sitting on their hands.

Rachel Schroeder, head of project, says the involvement of Airbus experts was important in winning the commitment of academics.

Airbus, you will recall, is a European aircraft consortium, with sixteen factories in four countries: France, Germany, Britain, and Spain.

Kingfisher was launched only two years ago and already has five of the giant new double-deck Airbus A380s on order.

Airbus is pushing hard, offering steep discounts to get American to sign on, this person said.

A few months later, Airbus sent a recommendation to replace the monitors.

Boeing's European rival, Airbus, also ran into manufacturing problems when it was attempting to push out its A380 superjumbo.

In recent decades the market has divided between short- and long-haul planes mainly made by two big competitors, Boeing and Airbus.

the markets in Asia-Pacific region might shrink if Airbus merely focuses on its competition with Boeing.

Airbus plans to build a factory in Tianjin near Beijing to start production in 2009 to help supply jets sold to China.

It is an auspicious time for three emerging rivals to the Boeing-Airbus duopoly to seek to establish themselves.

Airbus, EADS's civil-aviation arm, hit the news in November after a Rolls-Royce engine on a Qantas A380 superjumbo exploded in mid-flight.

every Monday, three, five, seven, Daqing -- - Qingdao - Pudong (round trip), two flights of Airbus A319 aircraft by the Executive.

China has been the focus of much attention from the two dominant players of aerospace - Europe's Airbus and Boeing of the US.

Secondly, it's said that China has canceled airplane order with Airbus, but the French side denied the news. Could you confirm?

And EU aviation giant Airbus also brought new members of its airliner family to the show.

The Paris Airshow last month was a clear win for Airbus, but don't count Boeing out just yet.

He already is the only private owner of a Boeing 747-400, Airbus said.

The World Trade Organization has made a ruling on a complaint about European government subsidies to the planemaker Airbus.

expects its technology to be approved in time for Air France to launch in-air calling on an Airbus A318 in the first quarter of 2007.

Airbus and French aviation colleges have separate agreements to train Chinese safety managers.

Airbus can assist new airlines in aircraft sourcing, acquisition and delivery management.

The Yemenia plane is the second Airbus to crash into the sea in a month.

And there were the buzzing propeller-driven military transporters, including the latest, the Airbus A400M.

An Airbus A300 operated by Iran Air is shot down over the Straits of Hormuz by the US Navy destroyer Vincennes.

One French pilots union, ALER, has urged its pilots not to fly the Airbus planes in question until these sensors are replaced.

Although Boeing did receive a proportion of the order, this deal represents a huge coup for Airbus.

Both companies produce titanium components in Russia for Boeing and Airbus commercial planes.

Late last year Airbus brought out a re-engined version of its A320 single-aisle family, offering fuel savings of up to 15%.

This is, however, a horrible time for Airbus to be launching such an ambitious new project.

Air traffic controllers say they received no unusual messages or distress calls from the crew of the Airbus 330 before it disappeared.

Workers at an Airbus factory in northern France held a spontaneous strike Tuesday to protest the planned layoffs.

He did pledge, however, to try to boost imports, citing recent deals to buy Airbus aircraft and nuclear power technology.

China has threatened to boycott purchases of Airbus planes over the issue.

Airbus described the decision as a "complete surprise. "

Morell was previously head of Airbus military derivative aircraft, including the A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft.

Airbus would now have to review the contractual situation with South Africa.

Coordination of aircraft parts from Airbus Partners and vendors at the Flightline.

The crash was the second involving an Airbus aircraft in recent weeks.

Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China is set to take on world's biggest airline manufacturers Airbus and Boeing Co.

Airbus, along with a new crop of foreign competitors, namely the Chinese, is aggressively pitching Boeing's anchor customers.

If we in fact had the right level of investment in aeronautics, we would not currently be competing with Airbus.

European governments shoulder a hefty share of Airbus's risk and the loans are cheaper than private investors would offer.

The sales came just weeks before the market was informed of serious problems at Airbus, the group's aircraft manufacturing subsidiary.

Be familiar with the codes, standards and other contractual documents that control the method as utilised by or on behalf of Airbus and MC.

It is the largest single order of Airbus planes and is expected to be delivered between 2016 and 2025.

The official launch still awaits approval by the board of EADS, the parent company of Airbus.

Such modernisation is helping Boeing to rival the manufacturing efficiency of Airbus.

The World Trade Organisation found that preferential government loans received by Airbus breached WTO rules.

The plane was an Airbus 330-200 powered with General Electric engines.

The cooperation project of plane wings of A320 series is a key cooperative project of technology transferring by Airbus company to China.

Which engines will Airbus and Boeing pick to ensure they stay ahead of the new competition?

They are using sonar to locate the engines which are believed to have detached after the US Airways Airbus A320 hit the water on Thursday.

A case in point is America's United Airlines, which has asked Boeing and Airbus to bid for an order of 150 aircraft.

The A400M is assembled in Seville, Spain, and the program is headed by a Spanish executive of Airbus Military, Domingo Urena-Raso.

The airline maintains an Airbus fleet and had previously maintained a good safety record.

It was used in the design of London's O2 arena, Sydney's Olympic stadium, the "bird's nest" arena in Beijing and the Airbus A380.

The Airbus orders were valued at about 3 billion dollars while the Boeing orders added up to more than 5 billion dollars.

"You may see a large aircraft order go to Airbus, or a large oil concession go to BP or Shell, " he said.

An Air France Airbus A330-200 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing 228 people on board on June 1.

"Airbus should make sure its own doorstep is clean, " Edelstenne told a press conference.

Including the Airbus headquarters in France now, of course, is incomplete in France.

In Tianjin, Airbus set up the biggest assemble base of A320 out of Europe in 2007.

Airbus is replacing the A340 with the A350, which the company expects to enter service in 2014. But the plane has faced several delays.

Still, any windfall for Airbus could be shortlived, say analysts.

The Airbus A380 is the largest commercial airline in the sky today. It is massive.

It was a tricky decision for EADS and Airbus.

Think about different Boeing airplanes as well as Airbus jets.

The French state is not just investigating Air France and Airbus but is also a prime investor in them.

What would this engineer say if he saw the current largest passenger plane on earth, the Airbus A380?

He adds: "And this is if Boeing and Airbus stay at their current technology level, which for sure is not a realistic assumption. "

EADS should sell Airbus, and return the money to shareholders.

I will be in 2009 in Tianjin will be the Airbus as the main supplier for customers, BV will continue to build on the strengths continue.

In the eyes of Hersen, Airbus China's vice-president for human resources, such cultural diversity is more of an advantage than a problem.

Preliminary investigations show the braking system on the airbus has failed.

It will include a runway long enough to handle double-deck Airbus A380s.

Airbus said it sent officials to accompany French investigators to the crash site.

Brazilian Navy announced on Monday that they found more debris of the crashed Air France Airbus A330.

And the delay to the 787 is not likely to give the equally- hyped (and delayed) Airbus 380 any competitive advantage.

Most of the other orders came from long-standing Airbus champions, like JetBlue (JBLU), which ordered 40 of the new jets.

On October 10th Mr Gallois travelled to Airbus's final assembly plant in Toulouse to reassure union leaders and local politicians.

Airbus was created with public money to break Boeing's grip on the civil-aircraft market.

six Airbus A-380s after one of the four engines on one of the planes failed shortly after taking off on a flight to Sydney.

The Boeing Corp. and Europe's Airbus consortium are preparing to offer bigger airplanes to the world's airlines.

"It is more of a stretch now, " Airbus Commercial Director John Leahy told Reuters.

The plane took its first test flight last month with the first Chinese test engineer trained by Airbus.

Now Boeing is fighting back, winning 265 firm orders so far this year, compared with Airbus's 145.

But although the subsidies that Airbus receives are different from Boeing's, they are not necessarily much worse.

Airbus, the Flyington executive said, wanted orders for the A330-200 to prove its viability to the U. S. Air Force.

Airbus is also hoping to reap an economic benefit from a project already plagued with difficulties.

familiar with Boeing, airbus and other foreign drawings, and all kinds of files, have many years of aviation sub-contract experience.

In late June, the World Trade Organization ruled that Airbus received billions in illegal European aid.

China will call off an order for 150 planes from European aircraft maker Airbus this year, the Global Times reported recently.

China may need roughly 3, 000 new airplanes, worth about $300 billion, over the next 20 years, Airbus has forecast.

They will want Airbus to pay for the leasing of smaller Boeings or Airbuses to plug that gap.

Boeing and Airbus declined to comment. China Eastern could not be reached.

Because airbus company got, come from the exit support of France, Germany and England.

France is also more than, say, Airbus, matches, and the Aerospace Industries Association.

ANOTHER week, another twist in the eternal struggle between Airbus and Boeing.

The in-service fleet of Airbus aircraft in China is now more than 580; at the end of 2003, it was less than 150.

Airbus Senior Vice President and Airbus China President Laurence Barron to welcome A380s debut in Guangzhou.

European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, the parent of Airbus.

EADS is the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, the parent of Airbus.

Chicago-based Boeing has been locked in a fierce competition for sales with rival Airbus's A350 composite jet.

The Airbus aircraft was manufactured in France , while its Rolls - Royce engines were made in the U. K .

The coolest is the Airbus A321 dedicated to the Arizona Cardinals, a nod to the airline's home base just outside Phoenix.

Boeing and Airbus could stick with their existing products, steadily squeezing out improvements.

Airbus A380 construction was held to celebrate the completion of the formal ceremony.

Boeing and Airbus could stick with their existing products, steadily squeezing out improvements. Or they could do something more ambitious.

The plane was an Airbus 330-200, according to the Paris airports authority website.

Airbus says the A330 has a good safety record, with no fatalities ever on a commercial flight.

A special team of engineers from European aircraft manufacturer Airbus have drafted plans for the future of flight.

Having seen the Airbus's experience, Boeing knows only too well the problems it too may face.

It can provide maintenance and repair to military and civil aircraft, including Boeing and Airbus aircraft, as well as helicopters.

Airbus A330 freighter aircraft being developed, is expected to be put into use in 2010.

Airbus believes that through 2030, the region should command nearly 70 percent of the commercial aircraft delivered.

In return, Airbus has landed big orders from Chinese carriers and expects to win more.

AIRBUS, Europe's aircraft-making champion, has long had its nose in the subsidy trough.

Eurocopter is part of EADS, in the civilian helicopter and Airbus series aircraft doors have a solid strength of production.

Few expect the A400M to be scrapped, but any profit for Airbus is also a remote prospect.

Air France says it first began noticing problems like this with some of its airbus planes in May last year and it alerted the manufacturers.

Boeing and Airbus are battling for domination in the larger categories.

Meanwhile, the weak dollar means Airbus must cut costs to compete with Boeing.

A RULING is expected on the never-ending trade dispute between Boeing and Airbus.