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Mar 19 2008
THE world’s biggest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, has completed its first commercial flight to Europe, landing at Heathrow Airport with passengers including an aircraft enthusiast from St Helens....
Oct 31 2007
PLANEMAKER Airbus is at an advanced stage in talks over the sale of production sites in Europe but its chief executive says it will also continue to explore other cost-cutting measures....
Sep 28 2007
UNIONS and politicians have welcomed a move by British Airways to buy 12 Airbus A380 super-jumbos, the wings for which are made at Broughton, near Chester....
Sep 4 2007
AIRBUS says it expects more orders for its flagship A380 superjumbo from airlines around the world next year....
Aug 17 2007
AEROSPACE workers near Chester will help make a piece of aviation history later this year when the Airbus A380 superjumbo goes into service....
Jul 25 2007
AUSTRALIAN flag carrier Qantas Airways says the A380 superjumbo jets it is buying from Airbus will have just 450 seats – even though the aircraft is capable of carrying almost twice as many people....
Jul 11 2007
AFTER a year in which its fortunes were blown off course by problems with its flagship jet, Airbus seems to have made something of a miraculous comeback over recent months....