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Airbus’ ‘Fly Your Ideas’ challenge brings innovation to campus
Airbus’ Fly Your Ideas – a UNESCO-backed biennial competition – is challenging students worldwide to develop new ideas for a more sustainable aviation industry. This year, victory will mean not only a €30,000 cash prize; the successful team will also welcome experts from Airbus’ Innovation Cell * onto their campus for a week of learning […]
ACARE \ Airbus \ Berlin Air Show \ Clean Sky \ Clean Sky 2 \ Clean Sky programme \ EC \ European Commission
Airbus supports extension of Clean Sky programme
ILA Berlin Air Show – Airbus has entered into an agreement together with 13 leading aerospace industry and research partners with a letter of intent to cooperate on a “Clean Sky 2” programme. As an extension of the European Commission’s (EC) “Clean Sky” Joint Technology Initiative, the industry would invest jointly with the EC a total […]
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AirAsia to become first Airbus A320 ‘Sharklets’ operator
Airbus and the world’s largest A320 customer AirAsia announced that the airline will become the first operator of the A320 with ‘Sharklets’ when they take delivery of the first A320 equipped with these fuel-saving wing-tip devices at the end of this year. The aircraft exhibited on static and flying display at the ILA Berlin Air […]
Airplanes \ Asia Pacific \ Asia Pasific \ aviation \ Boeing \ commercial \ maintanence \ Technician Outlook
Boeing Projects High Demand for Aviation Personnel
Boeing predicts the Asia Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and maintenance technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the rapid growth of air travel. The 2012 Boeing Pilot & Technician Outlook, a respected industry forecast of required aviation personnel, calls for 185,600 new […]
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United Airlines Announces First 787 International Routes
United Airlines today announced the first international routes for the airline’s newest addition to its fleet, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. In addition to the previously-announced service from its Denver hub to Tokyo Narita, starting March 31, 2013, the airline will operate nonstop 787 service five days a week between its Houston hub and Lagos, Nigeria, […]
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Airbus provides famine relief for Africa
The Airbus Corporate Foundation has helped deliver 36 tonnes of dried food to famine-blighted areas of southeast Africa, in a relief effort organised jointly with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IRFC). On 27 July, a flight test crew left Toulouse, France aboard an A340 and collected the supplies from Bergen, […]
Airbus \ customer service \ EADS \ Satair \ service operations \ shareholders
Airbus expands operations with Satair
EADS has for the second time this year dipped into its cash pool to make a services-oriented acquisition for one of its operating units, with a $504 million deal to acquire Satair to bolster Airbus’s service offering. The move – along with acquisition of Vector Aerospace for Eurocopter – is part of EADS’s wider […]
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Boeing CEO Statement about the death of Gen. John Shalikashvili
Boeing Chairman, President, and CEO Jim McNerney issued the following statement about the death, on July 23, of retired U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and former Boeing board member Gen. John Shalikashvili. “We at Boeing were saddened to learn of Gen. Shalikashvili’s death. We were able to see his exceptional leadership first hand during […]
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Airbus rolls out Kit digital signage solution
International aircraft manufacturer Airbus has rolled out a digital signage solution from video service provider Kit in a bid to improve its brand image. The system delivers video marketing communications to customers via the company’s corporate website, it also pushes video content to YouTube and mobile applications. The Kit digital software solution that enables the […]