Articles tagged “airbus”

Airbus delivered more aircraft in 2021 than it planned. But with an 11-year backlog of its bread-and-butter A320 family, the planemaker is looking at selling more of its other jets and boosting production rates this year.

Governments will likely use taxes and penalties as incentives to encourage airlines to operate more sustainably over the next decade, but Tony Douglas wants more players in the commercial aviation ecosystem to pay their part.

Boeing's challenges make for an uncompetitive environment given the current state of the aircraft-manufacturing duopoly. And Boeing's woes seems formidable.

After almost two years of retrenching and retiring aircraft, airlines went on something of a shopping spree at the Dubai Airshow. There's almost no clearer sign that airline executives think the recovery is well underway than by spending vast sums of money for new metal.

To capitalize on the almost insatiable demand for air cargo, Airbus is launching a freighter version of its long-range A350 twin-jet aircraft. The move is a tacit acknowledgement, however, that the European manufacturer is playing catch-up with Boeing, which dominates the air freighter market.

It's still too soon to call how much corporate travel will shrink, but one side effect will be a shift away from major airports across the U.S. All eyes will be on PwC.

Air France-KLM is renewing its European fleet with new Airbus A220 jets. The plane's are a key pillar of the group's aim to improve efficiency and cut carbon emissions per passenger in half by the end of the decade.

Airbus’ entry into the electric air taxi race brings the aircraft closer to reality. The airframer's long and close relationships with global regulators — unlike many of the new startups in the space — gives further credibility to its aggressive 2025 entry-into-service timeline.

Old school travel companies still largely dominate in terms of stock market valuation, but there is no denying the disruption sparked by Airbnb’s debut on the stock market.