Airbus

New Airbus Luxury Superjumbo Makes First Landing In U.S.

Reuters | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business


Airbus's A380 superjumbo touched down at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday, marking the first commercial arrival of the giant...

Friday Talking Points [36] -- End The Media's Pro-McCain Bias! Now!!

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media


Chris Weigant

McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.

Bad News for McCain: Government Re-opens Bidding on Boeing-Airbus Controversy

David Donnelly | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics


David Donnelly

McCain, whose history with Boeing led to the Air Force scuttling an earlier award on this contract, intervened twice with the Air Force to help Airbus' bid.

Ex-EADS In Major Insider Trading Probe

AP | INGRID ROUSSEAU | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business


PARIS — A former co-CEO of Airbus parent company EADS, Noel Forgeard, was hit with preliminary insider trading charges Friday in an extensive pr...

Frank Gaffney: Boeing's Surprising Spear-Carrier in the Middle East?

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

Boeing has no sense of what consequences a financial relationship with Frank Gaffney might have on its Arab nation customers.

McCain Advisers Lobbied For Airbus

Associated Press | Jim Kuhnhenn and Matthew Daly | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics


Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Fo...

Northrop, EADS Win $35B Air Force Deal

AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 02.29.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — The Air Force on Friday awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. and a European partner a $35 billion contract to build airborne refueling pl...

Airbus In Talks About Creating Flying Casinos

AFP | Posted 02.14.2008 | Business


Airbus said Thursday it was holding talks with a number of customers interested in converting its superjumbo A380 -- the world's biggest passenger pla...

Airbus, Boeing: Jet Orders At Peak, Demand To Dwindle In '08

Bloomberg | Andrea Rothman, Massoud A. Derhally | Posted 11.14.2007 | Business


Airbus SAS and Boeing Co., the world's two largest planemakers, said 2007 will prove a peak year for orders, beating a record set in 2005, before dema...

Billionaire Saudi Prince Is First To Own Personal A380 Superjumbo Jet

Reuters Via USA Today | Tim Hepher | Posted 11.12.2007 | Business


Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has become the first person to buy the ultimate status symbol -- his own A380 superjumbo jet. Planemaker ...

Dubai's DAE Orders $27.2 Bil Worth Of Planes From Airbus, Boeing

Wall Street Journal | J. LYNN LUNSFORD, DANIEL MICHAELS and STEFANIA BIANCHI | Posted 11.12.2007 | Business


Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, a state-owned group created in 2006, Monday announced orders for as many as 100 planes each from Airbus and Boeing Co. for...

Airbus To Deliver First New "Superjumbo" Jet

BBC News | Posted 10.14.2007 | Business


Airbus is set to hand over its first finished A380 "superjumbo" to Singapore Airlines on Monday, 18 months behind schedule. The construction of the A...

Airbus CEO Denies Insider Trading Allegations

AP Via IHT | Posted 10.05.2007 | Business


Airbus Chief Executive Thomas Enders denied insider trading of shares of parent company EADS over the European planemaker's problems with the A380 sup...

British Airways Places Biggest Order For Planes In 9 Years

AP | Jane Wardell | Posted 09.27.2007 | Business


British Airways PLC divided its largest aircraft order in nine years between rivals Airbus and Boeing Co. on Thursday as the airline prepares to incre...