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Jul 15 2008
IT WAS honours evens on the day between Airbus and its American rival Boeing at the opening of the international air show at Farnborough as Middle East airlines announced massive orders of the companies’ jets....
Jul 11 2008
AIRBUS wing makers at Broughton, near Chester, fear they may lose a contract to help build an £18bn fleet of airborne refuelling tankers for the US Air Force....
Apr 10 2008
AIRCRAFT manufacturer Airbus – which has a major wing assembly plant near Chester – says it does not expect to gain a big competitive advantage because of a further six months’ delivery delay to a new plane being built by American rival Boeing....
Mar 5 2008
TOP US Air Force officials are today expected to defend their decision to award a £18bn contract for a 179 new refuelling aircraft to Northrop Grumman and European partner EADS....
Feb 23 2008
to offset the cost of higher fuel prices....
Feb 20 2008
AMERICAN aircraft manufacturer Boeing is outpacing its European rival Airbus in the battle for Asian customers....
Feb 19 2008
RIVAL aircraft manu-facturers Airbus and Boeing are expected to renew their tussle for orders in the rapidly– growing Asia-Pacific region at the inaugural Singapore Air Show which opened yesterday....
Feb 11 2008
MASSIVE growth in air travel over the next two decades is expected to drive billions of pounds worth of work in the direction of Airbus’s wingmaking plant near Chester....
Jan 17 2008
PROSPECTS for a speedy settlement in the tit-for-tat transatlantic clash over aircraft subsidies seemed to recede yesterday as a case involving Airbus and US rival Boeing resumed at the World Trade Organisation....
Oct 12 2007
BOEING has announced a six months delay in delivering the first of its new 787 Dreamliner jets – the rival to Airbus’s new A350 XWB aircraft....