Airbus
Boeing bid for Spirit AeroSystems hits snag over Airbus assets
BOEING’S plan to buy back supplier Spirit AeroSystems Holdings has become a protracted process over pricing for factories that make components for Airbus, complicating the US planemaker’s efforts to...
Airbus facing upfront costs to support jet output increase
AIRBUS is incurring up-front costs as it prepares for higher jet production and plans a breathing space to absorb them once it reaches its output goal, its finance chief...
Airbus says first-quarter jet deliveries rose 12%
AIRBUS jet deliveries rose 12 per cent in the first quarter, the European planemaker said on Tuesday (Apr 9).Deliveries reached 142 aircraft, confirming a Reuters report on the quarterly...
Spirit Airlines to defer Airbus deliveries, furlough 260 pilots to save cash
SPIRIT Airlines said on Monday (Apr 8) it has reached an agreement with Airbus to delay all aircraft deliveries scheduled from the second quarter of 2025 through 2026 and...
Boeing, Airbus exploring framework to divvy up Spirit Aero’s operations: sources
BOEING and Airbus are edging towards a potentially coordinated deal to split operations of troubled supplier Spirit AeroSystems, taking on plants needed to support their top jet programmes, people...
Airlines desperate for planes paying more for older models
BOEING’S latest 737 Max crisis has worsened an airline shortage of popular narrow body aircraft, sending the cost of used-jet rentals to the highest level in years. The US planemaker...
Airbus inks US$14 billion deal with Korean Air as Boeing snubbed
KOREAN Air Lines passed over embattled Boeing – typically the carrier’s top aircraft supplier – to order 33 Airbus A350 wide-body jets in a US$14 billion deal as it...
Japan Airlines says buying 32 Airbus, 10 Boeing planes
JAPAN Airlines (JAL) said on Thursday (Mar 21) that it is buying 32 new aircraft from Airbus and 10 from Boeing in orders likely worth billions of dollars. The...
