Airbus A350 News

LONDON: A British Airways plane travelling from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow on Friday after a technical fault in an engine.

Wellington City Council's decision to back Wellington Airport's runway extension is a major boost to the city's economic growth potential.

At Boeing's annual investor conference, Ray Conner confidently predicted the 787 and forthcoming 777X will dominate the widebody market against competition from Airbus.

Their goal is to create better manufacturing processes, reduce weight, lower costs, improve inspections or otherwise boost Spirit's capabilities and its ability to serve customers.

The news that Wellington City Council is to vote to put $1 million towards the cost of resource consent to extend the airport runway is positive, says Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Raewyn Bleakley.

Airbus gave the world a peek at the new A350 XWB "MSN001", as it emerged in its Airbus livery out from the paintshop in Toulouse last week.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner, shown in Tokyo earlier this year, was on Kiawah Island today to address analysts.

Britain's Rolls-Royce has won a contract to supply engines to power 23 Airbus aircraft ordered by U.S. leasing company CIT Aerospace, it said on Wednesday.

The vertical tail wing of the first Airbus A350 is seen on the final assembly line in Toulouse, southwestern France, in this October 23, 2012 file photo.

With the Paris Air Show just a month away, Airbus may be preparing to try to take the wind away from Boeing's resurgent 787 Dreamliner.

Kuwait Airways signed a deal with Airbus to buy 15 A320neo and 10 A350-900 planes with options for 10 more, five from each category, chairman Sami al-Nasef said today.

The father of a 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister had planned on addressing the media, but sheriff's officials said a news conference set for Tuesday was canceled.

IT could be the world's most expensive holiday - a $100,000 round-the-world jaunt visiting everywhere from the remote Easter Island to the glamour playground of Monte Carlo by private jet.

Airbus has showed off its new A350 XWB, rolling out its first flyable plane on Monday fresh from the paintshop in company livery.

Airbus expressed growing optimism about the schedule for the keenly-awaited maiden flight of its A350 on Tuesday, amid speculation that its first new jet in almost a decade could debut before next month's Paris air show.

Airbus rolled out the first A350 from the paint shop, perhaps positioning the European aircraft maker to take advantage of Boeing's , which operates the world largest Airbus fleet, expects to take delivery of its first A350 in 2017, by which time it is expected to have merged with American US Airways is scheduled to receive four A350s in the fourth ... (more)

MOBILE, Alabama - Successful development of Mobile's expanding aerospace and aviation sector might well hinge on more than a century of hindsight and best practices imported from nearly 4,800 miles away.

European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. posted higher first-quarter earnings as its Airbus unit more than doubled profit on higher deliveries of commercial jets.

TAKE a group of stressed passengers, add a series of unexplained flight delays along with "unhelpful" airport employees, and you've got a recipe for disaster.

Boeing has appointed its team to lead the new 777X jet program, a further indication that a formal launch of the airplane is no more than months away.