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Airbus has agreed to increase the amount of interest it is paying on launch aid from the French and Spanish governments for the A350 in a bid to end

Thousands of Airbus employees gathered July 8 in Toulouse for a demonstration at Airbus’ main site for commercial aircraft, protesting planned job cuts related to the COVID-19 crisis.

LYON, France—Airbus’ announcement June 30 that it would cut 15,000 positions in response to the current crisis has caused an uproar in France, where 5,000 cuts are planned.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said he expects aircraft production and deliveries will be back in line by the end of 2021, meaning the manufacturer will produce more aircraft than it can deliver until then.

Airbus conducted six dedicated test flights over nine months as part of the research project that culminated in April with the milestone first fully

Airbus has appointed Anand Stanley as the new president of Airbus Asia-Pacific.

Which new-build airliners are most likely to see deferred deliveries or cancellations by airline or lessors due to the COVID-19 downturn? Industry

Germany is looking to arm its future fleet of EuroDrone unmanned aircraft systems with MBDA Brimstone air-to-ground missiles and Enhanced Paveway

As the LCC returns to the skies on June 15 the focus is “profitable flying” on British and French domestic routes.

FRANKFURT—Airbus plans to increase its research into how health-protection technology inside passenger aircraft cabins can be improved, the OEM’s executive vice president of engineering Jean-Brice Dumont told Aviation Week.

The largest aerostructures provider to Airbus, Boeing and other aircraft makers will lay off around 1,450 more workers at its Wichita headquarters campus.

With an increasing number of carriers pressing passenger aircraft into service as temporary freighters during the COVID-19 pandemic, Airbus is developing a main cabin cargo-stacking modification for its A330 and A350-family aircraft.

Airbus will not decide on further changes to its production rates before June and any potential adaptations will be “on a smaller scale” than previous cuts, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said April 29.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury gave a dramatic warning to employees that heralds potentially deeper production cuts than initially planned.

After missing a March 6 deadline to submit its proposal for an MRO joint venture with Thai Airways at U-Tapao Airport, Airbus has also failed to meet the new deadline of April 20.

Airbus has begun using an “e-Delivery” remote process for aircraft handovers as a way to ensure health and safety amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

The commercial aftermarket could see a 50% decline in year-over-year sales during the 2020 second quarter before beginning what will likely be a long

Airbus decided April 8 to cut commercial aircraft production by roughly one third across the board as it deals with the fall-out of the coronavirus crisis.

Airbus decided April 6 to suspend production and aircraft at some of its facilities, most importantly the A220 and A320 final assembly line in Mobile, Alabama.

EasyJet founder and shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannou is insisting that the UK LCC cancel its Airbus order and slim its fleet down to 250 aircraft.

Airbus is faced with an avalanche of requests for delivery deferrals and is preparing for substantial production cuts as many of its customers struggle with the impact of COVID-19 coronavirus on air transport.

Airbus has to prepare for a massive, multi-year downturn that will see it get back to previous production volumes only after 2027, analysts at Agency Partners forecast.

The COVID-19 outbreak and the disruption it is causing to international travel could hit industry-wide orders for long-haul aircraft, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury told a Mar. 4 hearing of the French senate’s economic affairs committee.

Grappling with sliding profits and slowing demand due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, Air New Zealand will now take delivery of a number of aircraft later than planned.

Routes Europe, the route development forum for Europe, will this April gather senior decision-makers in Bergen, Norway, to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the aviation industry.