After clinching a deal today to sell six A3XX planes to Virgin Atlantic Airways , Airbus Industrie has reached the 50 orders it previously said it needed to launch its long-range, double-decker ...

Virgin Atlantic Airways has signed an agreement with Airbus Industrie to purchase six A3XX aircraft, worth more than US$3.8 billion, for delivery in 2006. The deal includes an option to purchase six ...

Seattle-based Boeing Co. will probably launch a super-jumbo B747-X airliner, an extended version of the B747, to compete with the projected Airbus A3XX, later this year, company President Phil Condit ...

I IMMENSELY ENJOYED YOUR ARTICLE about the High-Speed Civil Transport (""Beyond the Concorde, and Other Fantasy Flights,'' THE MILLENNIUM NOTEBOOK, March 2). However--contrary to your statement that ...

BOEING'S bosses are growing increasingly nervous about the prospect of losing their lucrative monopoly at the top end of the jet-airliner market. The 400-seater jumbo is showing its age and orders are ...

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(AFP, FARNBOROUGH) - Dubai's Emirates airline signed a contract on Monday for seven Airbus A3XX super jumbo airliners with an option for five more, Airbus Industrie announced at the air show here.

Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "Airbus A3XX: Developing the World's Largest Commercial Jet (A) and (B) TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 201-040, December 2000. (Revised August 2001.) ...

The genealogy of the A380 is a contorted maze of unusual relationships, deadends and improbable possibilities. The roots of Europe's largest ever civil aircraft programme reach back to the late 1980s, ...

Few aircraft are as capable as the massive Airbus A380, and yet the aircraft is one of the hardest to turn a profit operating. The Airbus A380 is the world's largest passenger aircraft and the only ...

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engined airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.) It first flew on April 27, 2005 from Toulouse in France. Commercial flights are scheduled to begin in 2007 ...