News Airbus announced at Innovation Days that the A220 has increased gross weight and range, now 3,350nm for the A220-300 and 3,400nm for the A220-100. This increase in range brings transatlantic operations from New England into play, and makes the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…