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Airbus to mark 50th anniversary with Toulouse flypast
Airbus plans to kick off its 50th anniversary celebrations tomorrow (29 May) in style with a flypast over its Toulouse headquarters.
The date is significant for the European manufacturer as it was then in 1969 that the original Airbus partnership agreement was signed at the Paris air show in Le Bourget, signalling the launch of the A300B programme.
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AIRBUS 50: Europe's pioneering aerospace giant
Airbus came into being as a commercial aircraft consortium 50 years ago – combining the airliner manufacturing muscle of France, Germany, Spain and the UK. However, we had to wait until the turn of the century for the next tectonic shift in the European aerospace and defence industry, with the creation of the European Aeronautic Defence & Space Company or EADS.
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AIRBUS 50: How the cockpits have changed from 1972
The Airbus ‘front office’ has undergone evolutionary and revolutionary changes since the original A300B1 cockpit of 1972. Here, we trace the flightdeck development story.
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AIRBUS 50: Five things Airbus got right and five it didn't
Over its 50-year history, Airbus has led the way in a number of major technological and industrial innovations and contributions to the industry. Here, we list five of the most important, together with five products or business moves that – with the glorious benefit of hindsight – failed to live up to billing.
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AIRBUS 50: The extraordinary evolution of the commercial business
Over five decades Airbus has transformed itself from niche player into a global aerospace powerhouse. We chart its rise in the airliner manufacturing business
Decisions taken by an embryonic consortium of European aircraft manufacturers 50 years ago would have a far greater impact on the future of the global industry than even those visionaries could have imagined in their wildest dreams.
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Airlines

Lufthansa Cargo cuts schedule as demand weakens
Lufthansa Cargo (LHC) will reduce its flight schedule in the second and third quarters in the face of weakened market demand. Services will be cut across the entire flight program in line with trends in demand, LHC said, without providing details about which regions or routes would be affected. “Demand in the global air cargo market is currently weaker than in the two previous record years,” the company said.
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China Southern A380 makes emergency landing after hail damage
Hail shattered the windscreen and damaged the radome of a China Southern Airlines Airbus A380 May 26 as it approached the airspace of Beijing Capital International Airport, where it landed safely after the aircrew declared an emergency.
The aircraft, flight CZ3101 from Guangzhou, was flying outside of clouds and avoiding a thunderstorm when it encountered the hail at 11:20 a.m. local time, China Southern said.
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SAS widens 2Q net loss on strike-related cancellations
A strike by Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) pilots contributed to a second-quarter net loss of SEK933 million ($97.7 million), widened from a SEK349 million loss in the year-ago period, the carrier said May 28.
The April 26-May 2 strike forced the airline to cancel about 4,000 flights, including 2,700 during the last five days of the February-April quarter, SAS said.
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Air France pilots agree to talks on Transavia France fleet growth
Air France-KLM LCC subsidiary Transavia France is poised for expansion after Air France pilots voted in favor of starting negotiations to increase the number of aircraft the airline can operate. Members of the SNPL ALPA Air France council, the union representing most Air France pilots, voted 97% in favor of beginning the fleet growth talks, Air France-KLM said May 27. Transavia France’s fleet is capped at 40 aircraft under a previous agreement with unions.
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Vistara leases six aircraft from BOC Aviation
Indian carrier Vistara will lease two Airbus A320neos and four Boeing 737-800NGs from Singapore-based lessor BOC Aviation.
The neos are scheduled to be delivered by the second half of the year and the 737-800NGs—two of which are from BOC’s managed fleet—were to arrive by the end of May, BOC said.
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KLM signs up to 10-year bulk biofuel commitment
KLM has agreed to purchase 75,000 tonnes of biofuel a year from 2022 onwards from a new plant being developed in Amsterdam.
The Dutch carrier says that under a 10-year agreement it will take 75% of the fuel produced annually by SkyNRG at its planned Delfzijl site, which will be Europe’s first dedicated plant for the production of sustainable fuel.
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SpiceJet slips to the red for 2018 on fuel and currency pressures
Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet slipped to a full-year operating loss of Rs2.39 billion ($34.3 million) for the 12 months ending March 2019 as higher oil and currency costs over the first half took a toll.
The loss compares with an operating profit of Rs5.57 billion for the previous year and comes amid a challenging climate for all Indian operators that has seen Indigo Airlines post its first operating loss since 2011 and the grounding of Jet Airways.
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Garuda signals Europe network cutbacks
Garuda Indonesia is signalling that it will cut back its Europe presence in a bid to reduce its losses.
Carrier chief executive Ari Askhara recently told a parliamentary commission recently that flights to London will end in August, and that frequency to Amsterdam will be halved to thrice-weekly.
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Airports

New Swedish airport readies for opening
As Sweden’s airline industry grapples with the new phenomenon of “flight shame,” which has seen some travelers starting to shun air travel because of environmental concerns, a new airport is scheduled to open in the country in December.
Scandinavian Mountains Airport is located on the Swedish side of the Sweden-Norway border amid a cluster of four major ski resorts.
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IATA to form consultative committee on new Polish airport
Plans to construct a new central airport in Poland took a step forward as IATA said it will establish a committee to consult with airlines that would use the new facility.
IATA is working with key stakeholders in Poland to establish an airport consultative committee (ACC) to facilitate contacts with the global airline community on the development of the new airport, to be located between Warsaw and Łódź and now known as Solidarity Transport Hub Poland (STH).
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Brussels airport to upgrade its baggage handling system
Vanderlande has been awarded the contract to execute a significant upgrade to the baggage handling system (BHS) at Brussels Airport.
The proposed operational improvements will allow the airport to handle an expected growth in annual passenger numbers from 25 to 40 million within the next 25 years.
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The worst UK airports in terms of delays have been revealed
Delays have been seen across the board at UK airports – with one in every four outbound flights delayed or cancelled.
A new investigation has found which airports across the UK have the longest delays, ranging from 25 minutes at the worst, to eight minutes at the best.
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Military

Boeing wins $259m USAF weapon planning software contract
Boeing subsidiary Tapestry Solutions has won a 10-year contract worth up to $259 million from the US Air Force (USAF) to provide Weapon Planning Software for the service’s combat aircraft.
Also called mission planning software, Tapestry’s programme is designed to help the USAF and allied air forces plan the details of combat missions, including routes, the location of threats and the points at which precision-guided weapons are launched.
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France accelerates H160M helicopter acquisition
France has advanced by 12 months the launch of its tri-service helicoptere interarmees leger (HIL) programme, enabling first delivery of the Airbus Helicopters H160M in 2026.
Paris had previously planned a 2022 launch for its rotorcraft renewal effort, which will replace five types with just one, with deliveries set for later that decade.
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AIRBUS 50: The future of Airbus Defence & Space
Today’s Airbus Defence & Space can trace its corporate heritage back to roughly the same point as its parent company’s creation as a commercial aerospace entity, when Germany’s Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm (MBB) was formed in 1969.
A European desire to advance collaborative defence programmes saw MBB take its place within an industrial grouping responsible for the development and production of a new Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA).
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Aviation Quote

I believe this plan [raiding RAF airfields] would have been very successful, but as a result of the Fuhrer's speech about retribution, in which he asked that London be attacked immediately, I had to follow the other course. I wanted to attack the airfields first, thus creating a prerequisite for attacking London . . . I spoke with the Fuhrer about my plans in order to try to have him agree I should attack the first ring of RAF airfields around London, but he insisted he wanted to have London itself attacked for political reasons, and also for retribution.
I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.

- Reichmarschall Hermann Goering, International Military Tribunal Nuremberg, 1946.