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Airbus: will be the A-400M aircraft the next "failure"?

It could be the new headache for the next CEO Guillaume Faury

The departure of Airbus CEO Tom Enders will be remembered for the announcement of the commercial and financial "disaster" of the A-380 aircraft, destined to start retirement from 2021 when the production line will be closed. The development and implementation of the four-engined aircraft cost to the European aerospace company between 25 and 30 billion euros, without obtaining significant results on...

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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

IndustryAirbus: the production line of the A-380 will close

A failure for the aircraft that was supposed to make the B-747 obsolete

It was in the air that the official stop of production of the Airbus A-380 (see AVIONEWS) would come soon, because Emirates -the main user- converts its order of the aircraft into the most modern and efficient... more

IndustryAirbus: the announcement of the end of the A-380 program on 14 February?

It seems more and more a certainty

The European aerospace company Airbus made official -yesterday- the effective cancellation of orders worth $ 4 billion for 8 A-380 aircraft, also announcing the start of preparations necessary to close... more

IndustryDoes Qantas cancel the orders of the Airbus A-380 aircraft?

Will it be the beginning of the end of the four-engine era?

Not only does Emirates seem close to changing the order of the Airbus A-380 aircraft in the more modern A-350s, because even the Australian airline Qantas Airways seems intent on cancelling the contract... more

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