Daily Insight: Tuesday 21 May 2019: A220 Range Increase Opens New Markets
Month May 2019
Airbus: only a small step, no giant leap with new model
Airbus prefers to improve existing aircraft models over investing heavily in clean-sheet types over the next decade, Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer confessed on May 21 in Toulouse at Airbus’ annual Innovation Days. Discussing its current aircraft portfolio in a…
Airbus Innovation Days – The Industrial Challenge
Michael Schoellhorn is Airbus COO and explains the challenges he is facing after moving over from Bosch. He describes an industry quite different between what he has seen before and what he sees now. Airbus faces a far greater level…
Airbus Innovation Days – What Customers Want
Today Airbus started their annual pre-airshow briefings. The format is different this year, because there has been a sea change in senior management. Key people in the old guard liked making presentations (plus the attendant buzz and adulation). Not so…
Niki Lauda: flying was his real passion
Not just the motorracing community but the aviation world as well is mourning the passing of Niki Lauda, who died on May 20 at the age of 70 after months of detioriating health after a lung transplant. Lauda is famous…
Morning Call -Tuesday 21 May 2019
Commercial Aviation Kirkland consultant questioned for six hours in criminal probe of Boeing 737 MAX crashes – Source: Seattle Times ANA welcomes second turtle Airbus A380 – Source: Airways Boeing’s new ’797? could be built to fly with just one…