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Jul 31 2008
LATE deliveries of Airbus’ flagship A380 superjumbo have cost the company more than £500m in compensation payouts to airlines, it was revealed yesterday....
Jul 9 2008
AEROSPACE workers on Deeside will be hoping for a confidence boost at the Farnborough Air Show being staged next week....
Jun 20 2008
AIRBUS workers on Deeside are waiting to hear if they will be stripped of a multi-billion pound order for wings for airborne refuelling tankers for the US Air Force....
May 28 2008
AIRBUS faces “risks” in the development and stepped-up production of two new aircraft, including the A380 superjumbo, the wings for which are made near Chester, says a company boss....
May 7 2008
MORE details are emerging about further, unexpected hold-ups to Airbus’s A380 flagship passenger aircraft, the wings for which are made near Chester....
Apr 30 2008
AIRBUS workers are ready to celeb- rate after reports that an attempt in Washington DC to block an £18bn order for new air force refuelling tankers is expected to fail....
Apr 16 2008
AIRBUS is considering fundamental changes to the way it builds aircraft as part of ongoing restructuring efforts driven by a slide in the value of the dollar, the head of parent company EADS said yesterday....
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....
Apr 9 2008
AIRBUS chief executive Tom Enders is hoping to land a big order from Australian flag carrier Qantas for the aircraft maker’s new long-haul A350 XWB passenger jet....
Apr 2 2008
FRANCE’S stock market regulator wants executives at Airbus and its parent group European Aeronautic, Defence & Space to face insider trading penalties or charges linked to costly delays of the A380 superjumbo and said the company had misled markets....
