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Qantas A350 delivery delayed due to redesigning of extra fuel tank: Airbus

Airbus says regulator has asked for design changes

Airbus SE targets nearly 800 deliveries as Boeing struggles with Max

The European planemaker made the prediction on Thursday as it reported earnings for the full year and provided financial targets

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Tata group, Airbus team up to make helicopters; Thales' MRO on cards

India, France adopt joint defence production road map

India has huge potential to be aircraft mfg hub: Scindia to Airbus CEO

Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday met Airbus Global CEO Guillaume Faury and discussed collaboration opportunities for manufacturing and designing of aircraft. India is one of the key markets for Airbus, which received orders for more than 700 planes from IndiGo and Air India last year. Also, IndiGo, the country's largest airline, has only Airbus aircraft in its fleet. In a post on X, Scindia said he met "Guillaume Faury, Global CEO, Airbus today and discussed further opportunities of collaboration for aircraft manufacturing and designing". As one of the fastest growing economies and with a focus on Make In India, the country has huge potential to become a global aircraft manufacturing hub, he said. India is one of the fastest growing civil aviation markets in the world.

Tata group and France's Airbus to manufacture helicopters together

India and France have firmed up a defence industrial partnership roadmap that would provide for co-development and co-production of key military hardware and platforms and facilitate technology collaboration in a range of areas including space, land warfare, cyberspace and artificial intelligence. Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra, announcing key outcomes of the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Jaipur last night, also said the Tatas and Airbus Helicopters have entered into a partnership for production of H125 choppers with significant indigenous components. At a media briefing Friday, Kwatra said the India-France defence industrial roadmap would also facilitate cooperation in areas of robotics, autonomous vehicles and cyber defence. He said an MoU was sealed between New Space India Ltd and France's Arianespace for cooperation in satellite launches. Modi and Macron also deliberated on the conflict in Gaza and its various dimensions ...

Air India to take delivery of 5 more A350s by June: CEO Campbell Wilson

Air India will add five more wide-body A350 aircraft to its fleet by June, and the process of upgrading 40 of its legacy Boeing 787 and 777 planes will begin in July, its chief Campbell Wilson said on Thursday. As Tata Group's takeover of loss-making Air India completes two years on January 27, Wilson also said that on average, one aircraft will arrive every six days throughout 2024. There will be an addition of 5 more A350s, which will progressively take to India's skies between January and June 2024, the Air India CEO and Managing Director said in a message to the staff. Air India will also induct 17 A320s and 46 B737s. The airline started the commercial operations of its first A350 aircraft on January 22, with a flight from Mumbai to Chennai. Currently, Air India has 117 operational aircraft and together with Air India Express, the total number of operational planes is 180. Last year, Air India placed an order for 470 planes with Airbus and Boeing. The "process of upgrading 4

Ready to invest in India to accelerate, push SAF production: Airbus

Qantas Airways, Airbus, and the Queensland government had in March 2023 announced a collaboration to invest in a biofuel production facility, which is being developed by Jet Zero Australia, LanzaJet

Air India begins commercial operations of wide-body A350 aircraft

Private carrier Air India on Monday commenced the commercial operations of its first wide-body A350 aircraft with a flight taking off for Chennai from the Mumbai airport. The 316-seater A350-900 aircraft has a three-class cabin configuration with 28 private business suites with full-flat beds, 24 premium economy and 264 economy seats. "Air India flight AI-589 took off from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Monday for Chennai, with a full-capacity load of passengers," the airline said in a statement. The aircraft will initially fly on domestic routes -- Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai -- for crew familiarisation and regulatory compliance. It will later be deployed for long-haul flights to destinations across continents, strengthening Air India's growing wide-body fleet, comprising its own and recently leased aircraft, the airline said. The first of Air India's own 20 Airbus A350-900 aircraft, registered VT-JRA, arrived at Delhi's Indira

India needs 2,840 new aircraft, 41,000 pilots in 20 years: Airbus forecast

Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the aviation conclave and exhibition, Wings India 2024, Maillard said Airbus will double its sourcing from India to USD 1.5 billion

A-I CEO lists features of Airbus A350, says it's 'highly fuel efficient'

Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday inaugurated India's and Air India's first Airbus A350 aircraft on the first day of Wings India 2024

Scindia launches GMR School of Aviation in collaboration with Airbus

Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday digitally launched GMR School of Aviation set up in collaboration with Airbus on the sidelines of wings India 2024 being held here. Strategically located within the GMR Aerospace and Industrial Park at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, here, GMR School of Aviation is poised to become a beacon of excellence in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering, a press release from GMR said. The school will offer a fully integrated 4-year AME program along with type training. It has been certi?ed by DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) and EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency). The school has technical collaboration with Airbus and is a first of its kind institution in India to offer a combined B1.1 and B2 Aircraft Maintenance Engineering licensing programme, Aircraft speci?c type training courses and ancillary courses like Aircraft structures, Aircraft composite courses. Airbus will provide the necessary courseware in th

Airbus forms JV with Air India to launch pilot training centre in Gurugram

Airbus has partnered with Tata group-owned Air India for setting up a pilots training facility in Gurugram, Haryana, under a 50:50 joint venture, the company said on Thursday. Besides, the European aviation major also announced a collaboration with GMR Aero Technic to offer aircraft maintenance engineering training courses at the latter's facility in Hyderabad. Spread over 3,300 sq mt, the Tata Airbus training centre will be equipped with 10 full flight simulators (FFS), flight training classrooms and briefing and debriefing rooms as part of the complete Airbus Flight Training Device setup, Airbus said. The facility, which is expected to be operational from early 2025 with the initial installation of four A320 FFS, will offer A320 and A350 flight training to some 5,000 new pilots over 10 years, it said. It will offer courses approved by India's DGCA and European aviation safety regulator, EASA, Airbus said. Under its collaboration with GMR Aero Technic, Airbus said it will provide

Mahindra Aerostructures to supply 5,000 varieties of components to Airbus

Mahindra Aerostructures will supply close to 5,000 varieties of metallic components to Airbus in Germany, under a new manufacturing and supply contract with the European aviation major, the company said on Wednesday. The latest award from Airbus Aerostructures GmbH covers all Airbus commercial aircraft models, including A320 family aircraft, Mahindra Aerostructures Pvt Ltd (MASPL) said in the statement. The contract adds to existing MASPL programs to deliver parts directly to Airbus at their facilities in Toulouse, France, it said. "With this new contract we further expand our relationship (with Airbus Aerostructures Gmbh) and increase our participation in the 'Make In India' initiative of the Indian government. We look forward to delivering on our commitments and continuing this journey of collaborative growth," said Vinod Sahay, President, Aerospace & Defence & CPO, Auto & Farm Sectors, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. The Bengaluru-based MASPL has been a direct supplier to .

Atos set to hold due diligence talks with Airbus on sale of BDS unit

An Airbus spokesperson confirmed in an e-mailed statement sent to Reuters that it has submitted a non-binding proposal for a potential acquisition of Atos' BDS business line

Air India's new Airbus A350 to enter commercial service on January 22

The first flight of the A350 aircraft will be between Bengaluru and Mumbai at 7:05 am on January 22

Year Ender: 10 big events that shaped the Indian corporate world in 2023

From Hindenburg's report on the Adani Group to the signing of the biggest aircraft orders by Air India and Indigo, India saw several important corporate news in 2023. Here are the 10 most significant

Japan's SMBC lends $120 mn to Air India to buy A350-900 aircraft

Aircraft secured debt facility struck in GIFT City, says lender

German airline Lufthansa orders 80 planes from Boeing, Airbus for $9 bn

The order is Lufthansa's first buy of Boeing narrow body planes in about 30 years, as well as its first purchase of the 737 MAX model

Airbus supply, support services by Tata to draw 5% GST, rules AAR

Tata Advanced Systems approached the AAR to know if GST is applicable on the supply of the aircraft