BA spends $8bn at Boeing and Airbus
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Business & money: Airline opts to renew fleet with both the European maker's A380 superjumbo and its US rival's 787 Dreamliner.
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British Airways Plc, Europe&#39;s second- largest airline, raised about A$1.1 billion ($770 million) from the sale of shares in Qantas Airways Ltd.
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BAE Systems advised its shareholders to sell the British defence group's 20 percent stake in Airbus to the Franco-German aerospace firm EADS for 2.75 billion euros (3.5 billion dollars).
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British Airways ended decades of loyalty to Boeing's 747 jumbo with a switch to Airbus's new A380 superjumbo on Thursday as it announced a mixed plane order worth up to $8.2 billion.
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Air France  announced a $7  billion aircraft order on Thursday, split between Airbus   and Boeing .
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Airbus kicked off a 10 billion euro ($13.2 billion) plan Monday to build its A350 XWB wide-bodied jet, which is designed to compete with Boeing's successful 787 and boost the fortunes of the troubled European planemaker.
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The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus took aim at rival Boeing with an announcement that it will go ahead and build the long-range, medium-size A350 to do battle with Boeing's 7E7 Dreamliner.
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LE BOURGET, France  - Boeing  won a deal to supply more than 60 planes worth $8.8 billion to leasing firm ILFC on Tuesday, in a fresh sign of buoyant demand for its hot-selling 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
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Business & money: Boeing thrpws down the gauntlet to its loss-making European rival Airbus.
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Australiaâs largest airline agreed to an $8.7 billion buyout offer from a consortium led by Macquarie Bank and the Texas Pacific Group.
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Boeing Co, the world&#39;s second-biggest maker of commercial aircraft, won a $360 million order from Air China, the country&#39;s biggest overseas carrier, for seven 737-700 jetliners used in flying medium-range routes.
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In its largest aircraft purchase in nearly a decade, the airliner ordered 24 Boeing 787 aircraft and 12 Airbus A380s.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Airbus, the European aircraft maker that competes with Boeing Co. (BA) , is expecting airline deliveries this year from 315-320, approaching a record, the Financial Times reported, citing Chief Executive Noel Forgeard.
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Airbus signs a $16bn deal to supply 80 of its forthcoming A350 mid-sized aircraft to Qatar Airways.
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European aircraft maker Airbus took almost as many orders as its US rival Boeing last year, the chief executive of its parent company EADS, Louis Gallois, said here on Thursday.
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Fierce competition between giant aircraft makers, Boeing and Airbus, has been heating up. The US government and the European Union have both stepped in to boost their prospects.
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Bloomberg - Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. receives ``lavish&#39;&#39; government subsidies that give the U.S. aircraft maker an unfair competitive edge over rival Airbus SAS, the European Union told the World Trade Organization at a hearing today.