Airbus A380

Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders said the discovery inside the superjumbo's wings, where new lightweight carbon-composite materials and traditional metal meet, showed the difficulty of pushing technical boundaries in the ultra-competitive industry.  

The cracked wings of the Airbus A380 double-decker airliner are the result of new technologies mixed with insufficient design controls that are now causing spiraling repair costs, Chief Executive Officer Tom Enders said. “This is something ...  

SEATTLE -- The Federal Aviation Administration has relaxed its rule on the required separation distances for aircraft flying behind the massive Airbus A380. However, the giant double-decker jet still requires greater distances than Boeing's ...  

The head of European aerospace giant EADS said that cracks found in one of its most popular Eurocopter models were a minor glitch and not comparable to problems found on some superjumbo planes made by its subsidiary.EADS, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, is already facing a substantial repair bill after cracks were found in the wings of some of its A380 planes manufactured by another subsidiary, Airbus.After that authorities...  

PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus parent EADS took a charge of 158 million euros for the cost of overcoming wing cracks on the A380 superjumbo as it posted better-than-expected first-quarter results on Wednesday buoyed by resilient aircraft and helicopter demand.  

2011 -- China’s Rich Try to Fly Around Red Tape. 2010 -- Lufthansa takes delivery of its first Airbus A380.  Airbus President and CEO Thomas Enders handed over the aircraft to Lufthansa CEO and Chairman Wolfgang Mayrhuber at an official ceremony at the Airbus plant in Hamburg-Finkenwerder, which was attended by about 700 honorary guests.  Lufthansa has configured its Airbus A380 with 526 seats. 2000 -- Two new 'smart weapons', WCMD, and a...  

Bloomberg News writes that Qantas CEO "Alan Joyce plans to defend the Sydney-based carrier's 'profit-maximizing' 65% market share as Virgin adds seats and targets lucrative corporate customers with airport lounges and business-class seats. On ...  

The Airport has installed a mockup of the A380, the world s largest passenger jet, at its Fire Training Research Center, where it will help DFW train its own aircraft rescue firefighting (ARFF) team and others from around the world. The DFW Fire Training ...  

Airbus chief operating officer for customers John Leahy said the aircraft was safe to fly and described the problem as a maintenance issue. "It's unfortunate we have to replace some of these parts, but it happens," Mr Leahy said. Qantas said it was in ...  

The airline separately said it plans to order 10 planes from Canada's Bombardier Inc. this year at a cost of about $700 million. "We are going to order 10 Bombardier aircraft at the cost of nearly $700 million for our corporate jet business ...  

Malaysia Airlines’ (MAS) first Airbus A380 returned to Toulouse Thursday following completion of interior furnishing and cabin system tests in Hamburg, Airbus announced. The aircraft is now stationed at the Airbus flight line for final system ...  

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian flagship carrier Qantas Airways Ltd. says it delaying delivery of two Airbus A380 planes to curb costs. The airline said Friday it would not take delivery of the A380s as scheduled in 2013. That would help it cut capital ...  

Airbus is planning a stretched version of its mega A380 commercial airplane, the director of the program told an Australian television station. First deliveries are planned for 2020. The stretched airplane could carry 100 more passengers than the current A380, which carries from 400 to 600 passengers. The Airbus A380 director, Richard Carcaillet, told Ten [...]  

Lets have some nice A380 news – well it is the nearly the weekend after all. Malaysia Airlines first Airbus A380 is edging ever closer after the bird being flown back from Hamburg – where the interiors, furnishings and cabin tests were conducted to the ...  

HAMBURG (dpa-AFX) - Nach Haarriss-Problemen in Teilen der Tragflächen des Riesenjets A380 stellt der Flugzeughersteller Airbus seine Produktion um. Ende des Jahres wird mit dem Einbau neuer Klammern in die Tragflächen des Großraumflugzeugs begonnen. Ein Sprecher der EADS-Tochter Airbus bestätigte am Montag in Toulouse einen entsprechenden Bericht der "Financial Times Deutschland". "Wir kennen inzwischen sehr genau die Ursache für die...