Airbus puts new man in charge of A380 superjumo programme
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Airbus has announced that it is replacing immediately the director of the delayed A380 superjumbo passenger aircraft programme, Charles Champion, with A320 programme chief Mario Heinen.
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Airbus chief executive Noel Forgeard said the European aircraft manufacturer expects to make an announcement regarding a major new order.
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Airbus unveils its flagship A380 on Tuesday, the plane on which the company is betting its newfound status as the world's leading jet maker as well as the 10 billion euro (&#36;13 billion) cost of developing the "superjumbo."
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Airbus, buoyed by new plane orders as it tries to close the gap on resurgent Boeing , unveiled a leaner management on Wednesday aimed at uprooting nationalist rivalries inside the European planemaker.
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Hundreds of jobs at an aviation plant are secured in a deal to service the engines for the Airbus A380 superjumbo.
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European aerospace group EADS  now expects its Airbus unit to deliver only two or three A380 super jumbo aircraft next year, France's La Tribune newspaper reported on Wednesday as the firm's board met to consider how to put the much-delayed program back on track.
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The Airbus A380 superjumbo project is running 1.45bn euros (Â£1bn; $1.9bn) over budget, the firm's majority owner EADS admits.
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TOULOUSE, France - Airbus hopes to get the green light within days to launch a new plane to rival to Boeing Co.&#39;s 7E7 &quot;Dreamliner,&quot; the head of the European planemaker said Tuesday.
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The new chief executive of Airbus has outlined a vast restructuring plan for the ailing aircraft maker that could involve major job cuts and shifting more production out of Europe.
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The new chief executive of the ailing aircraft maker Airbus was set to present a vast restructuring plan for the group to the board of parent company EADS, union sources said.
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TOULOUSE, France  - The Airbus A380 superjumbo is  five tonnes overweight but this is less than one percent of its  maximum weight and airlines are not worried, John Leahy,  commercial director at Airbus, said on Tuesday.
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LONDON: Cost overruns and political bickering will be set aside tomorrow at Airbus as the Toulouse-based planemaker unveils its mighty A380 double-decker, the biggest airliner ever built.
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TOULOUSE, France  - Planemaker Airbus threw a  spectacular party Tuesday for the world's largest airliner, the  A380 -- overweight, overbudget and yet to fly, but hailed by  its makers as a major European feat that will reshape aviation.
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LONDON Airbus has predicted that an average of 830 passenger aircraft will be built each year for the next two decades and that the new Airbus jumbo A380 will be so successful that Boeing will be forced to develop a competitor.
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Airbus management began to outline a giant restructuring plan to employees following problems with its A380 superjumbo jet amid signs of political concern about the consequences of a major overhaul.
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European planemaker Airbus says it has put the problems associated with its A380 superjumbo behind it.
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Aviation authorities were set  on Tuesday to declare Airbus's mammoth new A380 aircraft safe  for commercial flight, capping six years of development for the  world's largest airliner, which has been hit by production  delays.