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Airbus Helicopters focuses on customers and presents products and services at Heli Expo 2016

Industry stakeholders will be invited to see the world of Airbus Helicopters’ from a new perspective at the Heli Expo trade show from March 1-3 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, KY. Airbus Helicopters will be highlighting its wide range of products and services with a strong lineup of five aircraft, including the H125 in law enforcement configuration; the H130 in utility...

Airbus Raises Plane Production, Boosted by Low Oil Prices and Iran

Its struggling A380 superjumbo finally got a new customer too. Airbus Group performed a partial U-turn on plans to cut production of its profitable A330 aircraft on Wednesday, easing the delicate transition to a newer model as it posted 2015 profits in line with expectations on Wednesday. The European planemaker said it now planned to build seven A330 wide-body jets per month from 2017, part...

Airbus has "solid" results with a record order book

Airbus has said it will increase production of its new A350 aircraft as it reveals a 15% increase in net profits for 2015 and a record order book. The firm, which employs around 15,000 in the UK, said it would boost production of its long-range widebody A330 to seven a month. This is in line with growing air traffic forecasts this year. It said its A380 superjumbo had broken even for the...

Airbus Helicopters and CAAS team for university UAV trial

The National University of Singapore will soon be seeing unmanned air vehicles flying over its campus, as Airbus Helicopters and the nation’s aviation authority team up to trial parcel delivery at the site. A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the aircraft manufacturer and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), which will result in trials under the Skyways...

Air France-KLM and GOL celebrate a two-year partnership

More than 300,000 passengers carried Two years have passed since the signing of the partnership agreement between Air France-KLM and GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes. This agreement has enabled both airlines to optimize and expand their networks to new destinations between Brazil and Europe, with more than 300,000 passengers carried. With more than 215,000 flights operated since the...

Transformation continues at Airbus Helicopters

Airbus Helicopters, says chief executive Guillaume Faury, is on a “journey” of transformation, as it attempts to go from being the “biggest to the best” rotorcraft manufacturer in the world. Faury, who in 2013 was handed the reins of what was then Eurocopter, has wrought impressive change since kicking off its transformation early the following year, but clearly that pro...

Marseille expects North African growth

Volumes at Marseille Provence Airport remained the same in 2015 but cargo manager, Jean-Marc Boutigny is expecting strong growth for 2016, helped by increased services to North Africa. Boutigny tells Air Cargo Week that in 2015, airfreight fell two per cent to 52,000 tonnes, mail remained the same at 3,900 tonnes and road feeder service increased by four per cent to 20,000 tonnes. For 2016,...

Why Air France’s Positive Profits Are Bad News Right Now

After a year in which France was shaken by terrorist attacks and Air-France KLM executives had their shirts torn from their backs by employees protesting job cuts, the airline’s first annual net profit since 2010 should be cause for celebration. But being back in the black just makes CEO Alexandre de Juniac’s mission to transform the airline’s competitiveness more difficult....

France finally clears Charles de Gaulle airport rail link

France on Friday said it will build a high-speed rail link between central Paris and the Charles-de-Gaulle airport, ending decades of fruitless discussion on easing access to Europe's second-biggest airport. The "CDG Express" is to be completed by 2023, the government said in an announcement in the Official Journal, on a budget of 1.6 billion euros ($1.77 billion). The on...

Meet Tom Williams, Airbus's Mr Fixit

Airbus chief operating officer Tom Williams has a reputation as a troubleshooter and he's got the aircraft manufacturer's supply chain in his sights. Tom Williams is a man with a problem. Almost 7,000 of them, in fact, but all “good problems”, he insists. That is roughly the size of the order book – 6,818, to be precise – of pan-European plane-maker Airbus. As th...

Air France Is Finally Bringing In-Flight Wi-Fi to International Flights

The French, renowned champions of the work-life balance, are about to lose one of their last sanctuaries from the connected world: the aircraft cabin. Air France-KLM Group will finally introduce wireless Internet on international flights later this year, after about half of clients previously suggested they’d prefer to remain unplugged, Chief Executive Officer Alexandre de Juniac said Thu...

Airbus’ Asia-Pacific presence is reinforced with new agreements announced at the Singapore Airshow

Airbus underscored its strong Asia-Pacific presence with a high-level participation at this dynamic region’s largest aerospace exhibition – the Singapore Airshow – which brought a new customer for the A350 XWB, plus agreements to expand the company’s services footprint in the area. As the world’s fastest-growing market for new civil aircraft, Asia-Pacific repr...

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