Airbus and SAS together will study the infrastructure requirements needed for operating hybrid and full-electric aircraft. A Memorandum of Understanding was announced on May 20 in Toulouse. It covers June until late 2020. Contrary to what the press release picture…
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…
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…
It’s just a number, but nevertheless a milestone to Airbus: the delivery of its 12.000th airliner. Not from its home territory in Europe, but from the Airbus Canada factory in Mirabel that became part of the global OEM only last…
Ryanair, Europe’s low-cost and low-fare champion, has seen its FY2019 profit drop by 29 percent thanks to… low fares. The Irish LCC announced a EUR 1.02bln profit on May 20, compared to EUR 1.45bln for FY2018. Ryanair at 139.1 million…
Easyjet has ended HY1 2019 with a headline loss before tax of £-275mln, compared to -18mln the previous year. Total loss before tax is -272mln (-68mln). Still, the airline said on May 17 it has delivered in line with expectations.…