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…
Etihad announced another loss-making year on March 14. It ended 2018 at $-1.28bln, which is a slight improvement on the $1.52bln loss the previous year. The second year of its transformation program saw its core operating performance improve by 15…
After one of the worst kept secrets in recent weeks, Airbus has confirmed on February 14 that it will end production of the A380 in 2021. This follows a re-think at Emirates about its A380 order, with the airline converting…
Airbus has confirmed it is ‘in discussions’ with Emirates ‘in relation to its A380 contract’, responding to reports from Reuters that the airline wants to swap some double-deckers on order for A350s. If confirmed, this casts serious doubt over the…