Here is our updated model. Airbus started the year with a bang – several big deals confirmed ensuring healthy order-level early in the year. Note the A321neo continues to accelerate past the A320neo. Upsizing is back in vogue. The Spirit…
Airbus has reached an agreement with the French, British, and American authorities to settle the long-running bribery case. The OEM settled the case for EUR 3.598 billion in court hearings in France, the UK, and the US on January 31.…
Airbus Toulouse will get an extra production and final assembly line for the A321neo, the company has announced on January 21. The additional capacity should relieve the current assembly facilities in Hamburg, which face great difficulty in coping with demand…
Airbus is testing automatic take-off and landing capabilities with A350-1000. These first steps, along with the auto-landing capabilities for general aviation aircraft to be certified early this year, indicates that the age of automation assisted operations is slowly but surely…
What is the next step after full automatic landings? Full automatic take-offs, of course. Airbus has succeeded in doing this on December 18, the company announced four weeks later on January 16. An A350-1000 test aircraft performed the first fully…
The news today is that David Calhoun begins his tenure as Boeing’s CEO after being a long-time member of the Board of Directors, replacing Dennis Muilenburg. The challenges he will face are daunting, as the company remains in the midst…