Category: Airbus

AN Airbus A380, the world’s biggest passenger airliner, bound for Sydney was delayed for more than an hour today due to a "fuel line" problem, the carrier said.

The glitch on the Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight was the third time in two months an A380 flight was delayed due to a fuel issue.
"Tonight’s flight to […]

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Boeing and Airbus are in the running to supply aircraft to Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Biman officials said on Tuesday.
They said Biman has received separate offers from Boeing and Airbus to sell the national carrier a dozen aircraft in total.
Boeing has offered to supply eight planes and Airbus four.
"We will evaluate both the offers soon and […]

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BOC Aviation, the aircraft leasing arm of the Bank of China, said on Monday that it will lease eight Airbus A320 aircraft to Qantas Airways.
The agreement is the second deal between Qantas and BOC, which leased three A320s to Qantas in 2004, the Chinese bank said.
BOC Aviation will deliver the planes between the third quarter […]

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Driven by demand from rich Middle Eastern clients and high-flying businessmen, the market for luxury private jets is booming, industry leaders said at the close of the Singapore Airshow.
"We have orders that will keep us busy until 2011-2012. Never in the past did we see such demand," says Bernd Habbel of Germany’s Lufthansa Technik.
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Japan Airlines is looking at buying some Airbus A350 XWB planes after production delays for Boeing’s 787, two company sources said.
Boeing faces increasing customer ire after announcing last month a second delay for the 787, pushing first deliveries out until early 2009 and the industry has been watching to see if any airlines will switch […]

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Airbus aims to talk to Singapore Airlines over the purchase of up to 15 additional A380 superjumbos and 20 A330 or A350 widebody planes, the European planemaker’s chief salesman said on Thursday.
"I would think (Singapore Airlines) will definitely need another 10 to 15 A380 category aircraft, and I think they need at least 20 more […]

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Singapore Airlines has selected the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine to power its nine additional Airbus A380-800’s, which were ordered in 2006 for delivery between 2010 and 2011.     
The order complements the first 10 Trent-900 powered A380s, of which deliveries have commenced.  Singapore Airlines became the first airline in the world to fly the A380 in October […]

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Singapore Airlines has encountered its first major technical glitch with its four-month-old A380 superjumbo, which forced it to cancel a flight from Singapore to Sydney last night leaving 70 passengers stranded without a hotel room.
The airline has confirmed it was forced to ground the Airbus jetliner overnight due to a problem with a fuel pump.
"It […]

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Airbus said today it is holding talks with a number of customers interested in converting its superjumbo A380 - the world’s biggest passenger plane - into a flying casino.
"We have had interests from customers who would like to do something like (casinos)," said David Velupillai, marketing director for Airbus’s executive and private aviation division.
"We had […]

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Hawaiian Airlines Inc., Hawaii’s largest airline, has signed a firm order for six A350 XWB-800s and six A330-200s. This deal finalises a Memorandum of Understanding announced in November 2007. The airline will begin receiving their new A330s in 2012, and will take delivery of their first A350 in 2017. Both models will be powered by […]

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