American Airlines is leaning towards a large order from Airbus to help capture the flexibility to switch between variants. They are proposing to 130 Airbus A319s and A321s. Remember the merger with U.S Airways is coming closer. "There's a lot of flexibility in this deal," says Tom Horton, chairman and chief executive of the Fort Worth, Texas-based carrier, at the delivery of its first A319 in Hamburg on 23 July. "The plan will evolve as we build the new airline."
Turkish Airlines is to exercise options on three Airbus A330-300s, days after deciding to convert options on a batch of Boeing 777-300ERs. Turkish Airlines says the aircraft will be delivered in 2015-16, following the firming of the order.
Airbus doing a bit of boasting on twitter... We have over 5,000 aircraft still to be delivered – equal to 8 years of production. RT & we’ll select 8 followers to follow back #8000Airbus
Airbus said it won 932 gross aircraft orders in the first seven months of the year, already beating its 2012 tally and taking it closer to its full-year target for more than 1,000 passenger jet orders. New orders last month were led by UK low-cost carrier easyJet's confirmation of a deal for 100 A320neo and 35 A320ceo single-aisle planes, Airbus said in a statement on Tuesday. Parent EADS last week raised the 2013 order target for passenger jets by 25 percent to more than 1,000 aircraft. Gross orders last year totalled 914 airliners. Industry sources have said business in the pipeline suggests Airbus could reach 1,200 orders. Airbus is pushing to regain leadership of the USD$100 billion annual jet market after Boeing grabbed the top spot last year. (Reuters)
Little Lea meets her very big namesake ‘LEA’, @British_Airways’ 1st #A380, the airliner her grandfather helped build.
A look at wallpapers for your background from Airbus... http://www.airbus.com/galleries/goodies/index-wallpaper/wallpapers-2013/
Airbus and Air Canada have received the Eco-partnership award 2013 from the leading monthly aeronautical publication Air Transport World (ATW) for the first ever North American “Perfect Flight” that took place in June 2012. The award ceremony will take place in September 2013, at ATW’s Annual Eco-Aviation Conference held in Washington D.C., USA. On the 18th June 2012, Air Canada and Airbus together achieved an over 40 percent reduction in CO2 emissions using an A319 on a commercial flight from Toronto to Mexico. The flight brought together all best industry practices to demonstrate the huge potential benefits of the latest technology, modern Air Traffic Management and operations, weight saving fittings and sustainable aviation fuels. Key to the success of this “Perfect Flight” was the collaboration and endorsement of all stakeholders, authorities and industry partners. Airbus and Air Canada’s partnership went a further step forward in May of this year when they agreed with BioFuelNet Canada to assess Canadian solutions for the production of sustainable alternative jet fuels. Teresa Ehman Director Environment Affairs Air Canada said: “all of us at Air Canada are thrilled with this award recognizing our joint ’Perfect Flight’ with Airbus, a tangible example of our airline’s commitment and responsibility to reducing our footprint. We subsequently operated a second bio-fuel flight together, an A330, flying members of Canada’s Olympic team to the London Games. Since 1990, Air Canada has become 33 per cent more fuel efficient and we are determined to continue increasing these gains through new technologies developed together with our industry partners, and the use of cutting-edge measures such as those deployed on these flights.” “Environment criteria – like emissions and noise are competitive drivers for Airbus and we have filled the technology pipeline with the most fuel efficient and quietest aircraft in their sectors” said Andrea Debbane, Airbus’ Head of Environment Affairs. “We can reduce our environmental impact with technology but we have to work together as an industry to ensure the very highest environmental performance. Our ongoing partnership with Air Canada is a wonderful demonstration of how together we can do more and we are delighted that this has been recognised through the prestigious ATW Eco-partnership Award.” Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer offering a complete range of aircraft families, from 100 to well over 500 passenger seats, as well as the most modern, comprehensive and fuel-efficient product line on the market.
More on the UPS A300-600F crash from Airbus. http://www.airbus.com/newsevents/news-events-single/detail/ups-flight-1354-accident-in-birmingham-alabama-usa/
First 'Virtual' A350 flight made... http://www.ausbt.com.au/airbus-a350-makes-its-first-virtual-flight?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=promobox&utm_campaign=latestnews-articleleft
Today we celebrate the delivery of 500th ship-set of the nose landing gear bay for #A320 family with @AEROLIA #MAKS. http://www.airbus.com/newsevents/news-events-single/detail/airbus-and-aerolia-celebrate-500th-ship-set-from-irkut-corporation/
Airbus has completed over 150 hours of flight testing with its A350 prototype, having resumed the campaign in August following a short break.
This from Airbus' twitter... Excited that our @Delta friends ordered 30 A321s & 10 A330-300s today. Many of the A321s to be built in #Mobile, AL.
