UPDATE – Boeing has come out as the ‘winner’ of the 2022 Farnborough Airshow, beating Airbus fair and square on orders by 176 versus 85 with a last day order from Qatar Airways. That the show would end rather subdued wasn’t…
Farnborough 2022 Deal Tracker
Covid caused some delays, but the development of Airbus Wing of Tomorrow has got to the next stage with the final assembly of the first prototype. It is the first of three composite demonstrator wings that will be thoroughly tested and…
where are the Airbus orders at the air show?
Airbus will start testing a small hydrogen engine mounted on a glider to study the effects of contrails produced by hydrogen combustion at high altitudes. The tests, which will run over the coming winter in North Dakota until next spring,…
Airbus and seven airlines have signed letters of intent to discuss buying carbon capture credits to offset emissions from air travel. The airlines include Air Canada, AirFrance-KLM, easyJet, International Airlines Group (IAG), LATAM Airlines, Lufthansa Group, and Virgin Atlantic. The…