Word: a380
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many CEOs does it take to run a pan-European defense company? The answer is still two, for European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. (EADS), owner of Airbus. And that might still be one too many. Delays in building the A380 megajet led to the ouster of EADS co-CEO Noël Forgeard as well as Airbus' top boss. Filling Forgeard's spot is Louis Gallois, head of France's railways, who will partner with EADS's remaining CEO, Tom Enders, a German. At Airbus, naming Christian Streiff CEO should placate two of EADS's largest shareholders, the French government...
Passengers who can fly on Airbus' new doubledecker A380, which has yet to prove it can be evacuated within the regulatory time limit...
Still Up In the Air European planemaker Airbus dominated the skies last week, even as business back on ground hit some turbulence. A crowd of some 30,000 gathered around Toulouse 's Blagnac airport to cheer on the successful maiden flight of the super-jumbo A380, the plane Airbus has spent €13.2 billion developing in a bid to eject Boeing's 747 as the reigning big bird of long-haul air transport. Airbus predicts a 5% annual growth in passenger volume over the next 20 years, which is one reason for the A380's larger capacity...
...Duration of last week's inaugural test flight for the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger plane...
...another of Bush's missed opportunities and the only thing that made me smile on that miserable day. Kees Broertjes Amsterdam Transatlantic Aircraft Re your article on the competition between Boeing and its rival, Airbus, the European commercial-airplane manufacturer [Jan. 24]: As Airbus rolls out its new A380 jumbo airliner, you might have noted that U.S. companies provide much of the A380's expensive avionics equipment. If customers choose the model fitted with the GP7200 engines from Engine Alliance (a joint venture of U.S.-based General Electric and Pratt & Whitney) instead of the Rolls-Royce engines, they will receive...