PAGE B1 AIRBUS BUYERS TO PAY MORE European Aeronautic Defense and Space, the parent company of Airbus, said the seven European governments that signed on to buy its A400M military transport plane had agreed to a 10 percent price increase to cover cost overruns.
Aeroflot placed an order for five A321 Airbus planes with a list price of $450 million.
[C3.] Virgin Atlantic Picks Airbus for Jets Virgin Atlantic Airways has ordered 13 Airbus planes with an option to pick up another 13, a blow to Boeing.
First there is the technical appeal of modern airliners like the Boeing 777 and the 320 Airbus, whose slick, computerized flight decks are easier to recreate than their cluttered analog predecessors.
Virgin Atlantic Airways has ordered 13 Airbus planes with an option to pick up another 13, a deal worth more than $5.5 billion that will nearly double Virgin's fleet as the company continues to try to beat rival British Airways, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin's chairman, said Thursday.
After the war he designed civil aircraft: the Il-12 twin-engined passenger aircraft (1946), the Il-18 Moskva four-engined turboprop transport (1957), the Il-62 turbojet passenger carrier (1962), and the Il-86 airbus, which made its first flight in 1976.
That's in addition to Wolf's order for as many as 400 Airbus planes for his domestic routes.
One idea I heard recently was to put an advisor in the business class section of a A380 airbus.
The 18 leased Airbus A320s and A330s will look pretty snazzy, too, emblazoned with a beaver Roots' mascot and Canada's national critter and a giant "R" on the tail of the aircraft.
In March FlightTime began running a 56-seat Airbus 320 four times a week to shuttle Procter & Gamble employees between Brussels and P&G's headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.
VIPOPS usually assigns one of No. 34 Squadron's aircraft to approved tasks, but other Australian Defence Force aircraft are occasionally used for tasks not suited to the BBJ or Challenger; for instance, Prime Minister Julia Gillard travelled to China on board a No. 33 Squadron Airbus KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport in April 2013.
