President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the EU, vowing to impose tariffs on billions in imports over subsidies to the aviation giant Airbus, suddenly escalating a transatlantic skirmish that is more than a decade old.
President Trump's decision to pull the US out of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and reimpose a raft of sanctions will hit a number of French and European businesses working in Iran.
Ukraine on Saturday signed a contract with Airbus to buy 55 of its civil helicopters for 555 million euros in the biggest-ever deal reached between the two countries.
Airbus CEO Tom Enders warned on Friday
that the aircraft manufacturer could face "significant penalties" relating to ongoing corruption probes including one into the sale of fighter jets to Austria.
Airbus said Tuesday it was postponing for a year the planned delivery of 12 A380 superjumbos to Dubai's Emirates airline, without offering reasons for the delay.
Airbus announced Tuesday it was cutting more than 1,100 jobs in Europe and closing one of its sites in the Paris region as
part of an ongoing restructuring programme.
Iran will sign a contract this week to buy 114 Airbus planes from France, during a visit to Paris by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Tehran's transport minister said on Sunday.
Airbus said on Wednesday that its A400M would take part in the flying display at the Paris airshow next week, just over a month after one of the planes fatally crashed in Spain after a massive engine failure.
France needs to learn to love companies in the way the UK and the US does. That's the view of Fabrice Brégier, the CEO of France-based aviation giant Airbus, who spoke to The Local and other media on Thursday. Brégier says he is a Frenchman, but "no longer thinks like one".
France sold €451 million Airbus Group stock, but is still holding about an 11 percent stake in the aircraft and defence corporation. But what prompted the sell off?
Some 1,000 jobs are set to be lost in France, after European aerospace giant and the maker of Airbus aircraft, EADS announced on Monday that it would be cutting some 5,800 European posts from its defence and space division.
Airbus on Saturday urged the German government to pay out a promised final loan instalment of 600 million euros ($830 million) for the construction of the A350, after the aircraft manufacturer said it had created German jobs in return.
A senior Airbus executive hit out at rival Boeing's troubled Dreamliner on Friday, saying the aircraft was clearly not reliable and suggested it was rushed to market.
French airline company Air France confirmed on Wednesday a multi-billion euro order of Airbus's new A350 planes. The planes are not yet in service and only recently carried out a test flight (see video).
The world's biggest air show takes to the skies on Monday, with a battle between Boeing and Airbus for orders in the lucrative market for wide-body planes set to dominate the Paris event.
France-based aerospace company Airbus launched its new aircraft, the A350, on Friday morning (see video below) The much-anticipated maiden flight took place at 10am French time, from the south-western city of Toulouse.
Europe's Airbus has won a record order worth €18.4 billion from Indonesia's Lion Air for 234 medium-haul A320 jets, the French presidency announced on Monday. The deal will be worth up to 5,000 jobs over the coming years, according to the Elysée.
British arms manufacturer BAE Systems and European planemaker EADS revealed Wednesday they are in merger talks to create a global aerospace and defence leader that would better rival US giant Boeing.
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<p>French investigators will release on Thursday a final report into what caused the mid-Atlantic crash of a Rio to Paris Air France flight that killed 228 people in 2009.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tiny cracks discovered in the wings of Airbus superjumbo A380 planes can be easily repaired and pose no danger, the aircraft's manufacturer said on Wednesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Air France pilots made a series of errors on the Rio to Paris flight that crashed in 2009 killing 228 people, partly due to a lack of training, investigators said Friday.</span></p>
<p><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Air France-KLM has decided to split a landmark order for 100 long-haul carriers between Europe's Airbus and US rival Boeing, a press report said.</span></p>
