BA ditches Boeing jumbo for Airbus A380 superjumbo
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British Airways  announced a plane order worth $8.2 billion at list prices on Thursday, ending decades of loyalty to Boeing's 747 jumbo with a switch to Airbus's new A380 superjumbo.
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London - British Airways (BA), Europe&#39;s second-biggest airline, will cancel almost 1 000 flights out of London&#39;s Heathrow Airport in the next three months to ease the congestion that leads to travel disruptions.
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The head of Airbus is not ruling out  abandoning the Airbus A350 XWB project, a redesigned version of  the planemaker's slow-selling mid-sized plane, because of the  delays in the A380 superjumbo, the Financial Times reported.
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Airbus says its A380 super-jumbo has been cleared to take passengers by European and US authorities.
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Planemaker Airbus threw a spectacular party Tuesday for the A380 superjumbo -- overweight, overbudget and still on the ground, but hailed by its makers as a major European feat that will reshape aviation.
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Blog: Years in the making, Boeing's newest jumbo jet will be unveiled this weekend.
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British Airways places orders for 12 Airbus A380 and 24 Boeing 787 aircraft, its largest order since 1998.
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The biggest airliner ever built completed its first commercial flight Thursday when the Singapore Airlines-owned Airbus A380 superjumbo landed in Sydney.
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Spanish airline Iberia may switch to Boeing when it comes to renew its longhaul fleet, breaking a 10-year exclusive relationship with European manufacturer Airbus, a Spanish newspaper has reported, citing unnamed top management sources.
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The research and development costs of Airbus's new A380 super-jumbo will be 1.45 billion euros (1.9 billion dollars) more than planned, the co-chairman of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, Rainer Hertrich, revealed.
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The world's largest commercial airplane, the Airbus A380, is set to debut next month, posing a profound threat to Boeing Co.'s crown jewel, the 747.
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British Airways handed US aerospace giant Boeing firm orders and options on Wednesday for aircraft worth 800 million pounds at list prices, in a blow to European rival Airbus.
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European aerospace group EADS admitted that its Airbus A380 superjumbo was set for further delays, and a newspaper report said huge cost cuts and a production switch out of the eurozone were being considered.
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Germany's Lufthansa  could announce as soon as Wednesday that it will order the passenger version of Boeing Co.'s  updated 747 jumbo jet at the expense of Airbus, its usual supplier, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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Planemaker Airbus' A380 superjumbo project is running 1.45 billion euros ($1.93 billion) over budget because of work to improve the efficiency and weight of the aircraft, the co-head of parent company EADS ...
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European aircraft manufacturer Airbus SAS plans to include in its new Superjumbo A380 planes an optional voice and data system that can allow passengers to use their mobile devices in flight. The service, including onboard mobile telephony and Internet access for passengers, will be offered through the OnAir joint venture to airline companies purchasing the A380. The system could be fitted on other models from Airbus as well as on planes from U.S. rival Boeing. The service should become commercially available in 2006, Airbus and OnAir said.
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The biggest passenger airliner the world has ever seen will roll out of its hangar for the first time next week to proud smiles from European leaders who backed its construction -- and a scowl from the US company Boeing, whose king-of-the-skies status has been lost.