The deal with Airbus means CSeries jets can be built at Airbus' Alabama assembly plant
Bombardier said the partnership should more than double the value of the CSeries program
Will lead to fast decision-making, less bureaucracy, greater collaboration
It also estimated strong demand for repairs, training and upgrade work
Buoyed by orders from entities in this country, European aircraft maker Airbus is opening a pilot training centre here. Work on this was inaugurated on Friday at a site which is part of the international airport; it will be operational by the end of 2018.It will house two simulators of the A320 for pilots from customer airlines. Which includes Vistara, IndiGo and GoAir."We have only scratched the surface on civil aviation in India. The training centre will be the first such facility fully owned by us in Asia," said Tom Enders, global chief executive officer (CEO) of Airbus.India has a little more than 200 of Airbus' planes in operation; there is also an order backlog of about 520 of its A320neo, giving it a market share of 70 per cent in service. On an average, Airbus will deliver one aircraft each week here over the next 10 years. Market leader IndiGo, budget carrier GoAir and full service airline Vistara are all Airbus clients and have ordered the A320 neo. IndiGo, in two tranches ..
AITC will support India's growing need for Airbus aircraft pilots and maintenance engineers
Airbus will also establish its India Headquarters
It is a modular concept car consisting a four-wheeled rolling platform
Airbus said its bottom-line net profit plummeted by 63 per cent to 995 million euros
PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus will draw a line under two decades of M&A dealmaking and frenetic orders on Wednesday as it reports its first results since the European aerospace and defence group unified under its dominant planemaking arm last month.
Austria initially ordered 18 jets but then dropped the number to 15
Plan subject to firm winning the over Rs 2,000-crore Coast Guard contract for which it has pitched
Airbus has declined to comment ahead of an annual news conference on orders and deliveries on Jan 11
Emirates had said it was having some technical issues with Rolls-Royce engines for A380 jets
The company said almost half the jets would be for short to medium routes
State-run carrier Air India today said it has taken the delivery of its 19th Dreamliner aircraft and plans to induct one more this month.
The two deals follow an intense final flurry of negotiations between Iran and Western planemakers
Unions accuse Airbus of following 'financial logic' in cutting jobs at a time when its order book is worth nearly $1.05 trillion
Airbus has identified 780 posts in public affairs, legal, IT and other white-collar functions as surplus to requirements
Airbus needs US approval to sell planes to Iran because at least 10% of the aircraft's components are American-made