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By Syndicated Content Apr 28, 2021 11:42 PM PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus posted higher first-quarter core earnings on Thursday but kept forecasts unchanged as its chief executive warned of uncertainty while the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. The world’s largest commercial jetmaker said adjusted operating profit rose 147% to 694 million euros ($841.6 million), led by its commercial jet and helicopter activities, as revenue slipped 2% to 10.46 billion euros. The figures were slightly ahead o...

Airbus on Thursday confirmed plans to raise production of its most-sold jets as airlines begin an uneven recovery from the pandemic, despite setbacks in Europe and a rapidly worsening wave of infections in India. Unveiling a stronger than expected turnaround in first-quarter profit, CEO Guillaume Faury said domestic air travel is rebounding in China and the United States while cross-border travel is likely to remain weak for some time. Conflicting policies on quarantines, lockdowns and testin...

Message : Required fields PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus on Thursday confirmed plans to raise production of its most-sold jets as airlines begin an uneven recovery from the pandemic, despite setbacks in Europe and a rapidly worsening wave of infections in India. Unveiling a stronger than expected turnaround in first-quarter profit, CEO Guillaume Faury said domestic air travel is rebounding in China and the United States while cross-border travel is likely to remain weak for some time. Conflicting...

Article content When it came time to land at San Francisco on July 7, 2017, the pilots of an Air Canada jet could not recall a critical piece of information buried on page eight of a 27-page briefing package: the closure of one of the airport’s two runways. Mistaking the runway they were cleared to land on for the one that was closed, the fatigued pilots chose the wrong reference point and lined up to land on a parallel taxiway instead. They came within seconds of colliding with four planes. ...

5 Min Read (Reuters) - When it came time to land at San Francisco on July 7, 2017, the pilots of an Air Canada jet could not recall a critical piece of information buried on page eight of a 27-page briefing package: the closure of one of the airport’s two runways. Mistaking the runway they were cleared to land on for the one that was closed, the fatigued pilots chose the wrong reference point and lined up to land on a parallel taxiway instead. They came within seconds of colliding with four p...

By Allison Lampert (Reuters) - While politicians hail digital health passes as the solution to aviations COVID-19 crisis, airline bosses are still having sleepless nights about clogged up airports as they worry how to deal with the millions who have already been vaccinated. More than 220 million people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, according to Our World in Data. Almost a billion have had at least one dose. (https://bit.ly/32HJtHQ) But many were given shots before the developme...

While politicians hail digital health passes as the solution to aviation’s COVID-19 crisis, airline bosses are still having sleepless nights about clogged up…

Message : Required fields PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus has defused a row over the future of a factory in southern Spain, but the Cadiz plant and its 300 jobs remain on the "critical" list in a potential setback to completion of a company-wide restructuring, industry sources said. Airbus on Wednesday cancelled long-deferred plans to sell two French and German units and announced a new proposal to hive off production of small mass-produced parts. But it postponed any physical changes to a networ...

Airbus shakes up aero parts manufacturing By Tim Hepher Reuters PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus has launched the biggest shake-up of its manufacturing network in more than a decade, with large-parts activities reorganized in France and Germany and some small-parts production hived off ahead of a possible future sale. The European planemaker said on Wednesday it would combine aerostructure assembly in France under one entity, bringing major fuselage parts plants in St Nazaire and Nantes together with th...

By Syndicated Content Apr 16, 2021 3:11 PM (Reuters) - Engineers have found two more places on some Boeing 737 Max jets that have the electrical problem that led to dozens of the planes being suspended from service last week, industry sources said. Airlines pulled dozens of MAX jets from service a week ago after Boeing Co warned of a production-related electrical grounding flaw in a backup power control unit situated in the cockpit on some recently built airplanes. Since then, two f...