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• officials accuse Europe of bad faith in talks over Airbus subsidies.
• WASHINGTON -- The United States said Friday it may reinstate a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over government aid to aircraft maker Airbus after talks with European officials broke down. ...
• "Despite our best efforts it's clear that the (European Union) is unwilling to eliminate launch aid subsidies for Airbus," said Richard Mills, a spokesman for the U. ...
• The two sides had agreed in January to try to resolve a decades-long dispute over government subsidies provided to aircraft giants Boeing and Airbus. ...
• Zoellick now serves as deputy secretary of state but continues to represent the United States in talks over Airbus. ...
• 11 that they would try to resolve the Boeing-Airbus dispute over a three-month negotiating period, deferring the cases they have brought before the WTO accusing each other of providing WTO-illegal subsidies to the two makers of commercial jetliners. ...
• A spokesmen for Airbus' parent company said Friday the matter was between the United States and the European Union. ...
• Airbus is 80 percent-owned by European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. ...
• Chicago-based Boeing has long been frustrated that France-based Airbus has continued to get government money to help it develop new planes such as the A380, even though it has become Boeing's commercial equal in recent years. Last year, Airbus delivered more planes than Boeing for the first time and it will do so again in 2005. ...
• "Our willingness to seek a negotiated settlement has been greeted by more arrogant entitlement from Airbus and its European backers," Murray said. "While publicly committed to negotiations, Airbus and European leaders have been working behind the scenes to continue subsidies to Airbus in spite of U. ...
• officials accuse Europe of bad faith in talks over Airbus subsidies.

• Boeing faces up to Airbus challenge .
• Its great European rival, Airbus, now sells more airliners and is challenging in markets where Boeing previously held sway. ...
• Boeing and Airbus have very different visions of how we will fly in the future. ...
• Airbus' huge double-decker Airbus A380, which was officially unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse last month, will be limited to flying to and from the world's major airports. ...
• Boeing has taken such a long product development holiday that it really takes more than just one aircraft to reverse the Airbus tide Richard Aboulafia, Teal Group Check Boeing's share price .
• To create the market for the number of A380s that Airbus will have to sell, you'll have to be drawing people from all over the hinterlands of these hubs. ...
• The Airbus A380 will be able to carry up to 555 passengers .
• "The problem is Boeing has taken such a long product development holiday that it really takes more than just one aircraft to reverse the Airbus tide. ...
• In part, that all depends on how well we like travelling on its rival Airbus's giant double-decker plane. ...
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• Virgin Atlantic has pushed its plans to take delivery of the new Airbus superjumbo back by a year. ...
• The airline says it will not now take delivery of the first six Airbus A380 planes until 2007. ...
• Airbus said that the manufacturer and other airlines were also in talks with LAX (LA airport) to ensure the new plane is launched on schedule. ...
• Airbus hopes the giant plane will enable it to grab more market share from its US rival Boeing. ...
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• EU raps US threat over Airbus aid.
• US threatens WTO action on Airbus.
• The European Union has denounced the US threat to invoke the World Trade Organisation against EU government aid to aircraft-maker Airbus, saying the move was premature and unnecessary.
• "I regret this unilateral action in breaking off" trans-Atlantic talks to resolve a decades-long dispute over government subsidies provided to aircraft giants Boeing and Airbus, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson on Saturday. ...
• Zoellick was recently named deputy secretary of state, but continues to represent the United States in talks over Airbus. ...
• resolve the dispute over government subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, an issue that has long been a source of trans-Atlantic frictions. ...
• The Boeing-Airbus dispute centers on subsidies to the two .
• Airbus concedes public aid reduces its financing costs, but argues it does not constitute a subsidy since it is repaid to governments with interest as well as a share of future aircraft royalties. ...

• Heavyset Airbus jet may need slimming .
• Workers gather in front of an Airbus A380 nose cone at the new final-assembly plant in France.
• PARIS — Airbus conceded yesterday what aviation watchers have long suspected: The European aircraft maker's new A380 superjumbo has a weight problem. ...
• Airbus projects that the largest commercial airliner ever built will weigh 319 tons — about 5 percent heavier than the previous target, a company spokeswoman said. ...
• The figures were first reported in yesterday's edition of German weekly Der Spiegel, citing internal Airbus documents. ...
• "These are our working assumptions," Airbus spokeswoman Barbara Kracht said when questioned about the report. ...
• Airbus and rival Boeing are going head to head with very different visions for the future of commercial aviation. ...
• Airbus — which delivered more planes than Boeing for the first time in 2003 — sees a market for superjumbos carrying passengers via major regional and connecting flights. ...
• According to Kracht, Airbus could compensate for the A380's bulge by improving aerodynamic performance to maintain fuel efficiency. ...
• Airbus already has 129 firm orders for the superjumbo from 11 airlines and insists none will be disappointed. ...

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• 39225kg (1-3; source: Airbus).
• Im Juli 1985 fiel die Entscheidung zugunsten dem in der Entwicklung stehenden A320 der Airbus Industrie. ...
• Im Herbst 1987 soll der neue 150-Sitzer der Airbus Industrie jedoch schon auf der Luftfahrtschau in Le Bourget seine öffentliche Premiere feiern. ...
• 92" 15°C/59°F Sea Level ----------------------------------------------------------------- AIRBUS A320 POWER PLANT: (2) CFM56-5-A1 TURBOFANS(25,000LB ST) PERFORMANCE: MAX OPERATING SPEED 360KTS/MACH. ...
• Airbus, like Boeing, uses `Flap' and a number between 1 thru 3, then FULL, to denote the requested flap/slat configuration. ...

• Negotiations to end dispute over Airbus subsidies could run past April 11 deadline.
• BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) - The United States and Europe traded threats and accusations Saturday in a fresh escalation of the row over subsidies for aircraft rivals Boeing and Airbus that risks souring trans-Atlantic ties. ...
• Although both sides appeared keen to cool the rhetoric Saturday, the EU said that if Washington took the matter back to the WTO, it would resume its own litigation and would press on with providing launch aid for Airbus's new model, the A350. ...
• Washington wants Europe to stop providing "launch aid" loans to Airbus, which have added up to some $15 billion since 1967 and include $3. ...
• Airbus, which in 2003 overtook Boeing as the world's largest manufacturer of big commercial jets, is co-owned by aerospace firm EADS and Britain's BAE Systems PLC. ...
• Airbus counters that Boeing benefits from tax breaks in Washington state, federal contracts for military and space research and Japanese government support. ...

• What made an Airbus rudder snap in mid-air?.
• What made an Airbus rudder snap in mid-air? .
• His Airbus A310's rudder - a structure 28 feet high - had fallen off and tumbled into the sea. ...
• Article continues One former Airbus pilot, who now flies Boeings for a major US airline, told The Observer : 'This just isn't supposed to happen. ...
• In November 2001, 265 people died when American Airlines flight 587, an Airbus A300 model which is almost identical to the A310, crashed shortly after take-off from JFK airport in New York. ...
• Airbus - Europe's biggest manufacturing company, to which British factories contribute major components, including aircraft wings - has now overtaken Boeing to command the biggest share of the global airliner market. ...
• Like earlier Airbus models, this relies heavily on 'composite' synthetic materials which are both lighter - and, in theory, stronger - than aluminium or steel. ...
• Airbus, together with aviation authorities on both sides of the Atlantic, insists that any deterioration of a composite part can be detected by external, visual inspection, a regular feature of Airbus maintenance programmes, but other experts disagree. ...
• Although the flight 961 rupture had yet be analysed, he continued to believe Airbus's maintenance rules were 'inadequate', despite their official endorsement. ...
• Barbara Crufts, an Airbus spokeswoman, said visual inspections were 'the normal procedure' and insisted Williams's case was unproven. ...
• One wrote that having attended an Airbus briefing about 587, he had refused to let any of his family take an A300 or A310 and had paid extra to take a circuitous route on holiday purely to avoid them: 'That is how con vinced I am that there are significant problems associated with these aircraft. ...
• Air Transat, a charter operator which flies from Canada to Europe and the Caribbean, said that after the incident it 'immediately carried out a thorough visual examination of all its Airbus A310s. ...
• Ellen Connors, the NTSB chair, told reporters last January that the report was delayed because of 'inap propriate' and 'intense' lobbying by Airbus over its contents, adding: 'The potential for contaminating the investigation exists. ...
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• Airbus: Airbus Comes Out On Top The aerospace industry has suddenly gotten really interesting. The week after Boeing's CEO Phil Condit quit the company amid the latest round of ethical misdeeds, Airbus vice president for market forecasts, Adam Brown, told reporters at the Dubai Air. ...
• Airbus: Airbus Comes Out On Top.
• The week after Boeing's CEO Phil Condit quit the company amid the latest round of ethical misdeeds, Airbus vice president for market forecasts, Adam Brown, told reporters at the Dubai Air Show that his company had 55 percent of the market against 45 percent for Boeing, taking orders for 263 aircraft since the beginning of the year - 47 more than Boeing, crowning Airbus "the world's leading supplier" of commercial jets. Airbus, based in the French city of Toulouse, says it has sold 4,854 aircraft to 186 companies since its inception in 1970.
• Promoting the A380, marketed as the world's largest passenger aircraft, Airbus said Monday its new carrier is the future of airline growth. ...
• In its separate news conference, Boeing expressed skepticism about Airbus' market forecasts, saying airlines usually handle growth in air travel by increasing frequencies and nonstop flights, not plane sizes. ...
• as Boeing managers tried to fit McDonnell Douglas into the corporate mix, Airbus took off. One story has it that an Airbus executive boasted in 1997 that his company's sales would easily surpass Boeing's by 2003. ... Now Airbus holds a huge lead over Boeing in orders; in 2002 and 2003, Airbus commanded nearly 60 percent of the global market—precisely the dominant share that Boeing enjoyed back when Condit was so amused. ...
• Sales of 747s have screeched to a halt since Airbus announced plans to build the 550-passenger A380, due to fly in early 2005.
• Those same airports crammed with Airbus A340s—and, before long, with mammoth A380 superjumbo jets—say another. ... airline industry, which may soon find itself with only one viable source of aircraft: Airbus. Goodbye to all the sweet deals the airlines extracted from Boeing or Airbus when the two were fiercely competing.
• But if the Dreamliner isn't a winner—and there is no clear evidence that it will offer airlines something that Airbus can't—the odds are good that Boeing will be out of the commercial aircraft business in 10 years. To leapfrog Airbus, Boeing needed to roll the dice. ...

• Who will win: Boeing or Airbus?.
• 16 (UPI) -- With only a few weeks left before negotiations between the world's two largest commercial aircraft producers -- Airbus and Boeing -- are expected to conclude, trade and policy experts are less than optimistic that the resolution to end subsidies will be anything close to diplomatic. ...
• But both sides of the Atlantic were adamant that a resolution would in fact take place at the end of the three months, with the United States urging the European Union to end subsidies to Airbus, Boeing's leading competitor. ...
• According to Swagel, the launch aid provided to Airbus is in essence loans extended by the government to the airline. If the product line is successful, then Airbus would be required to pay the loan off at the appropriate time, however, if the product line is unsuccessful then the loan is written off. ...
• According to commercial expert Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group, 80 percent of Airbus' market share is owned by the defense company EADS, which offers the commercial aircraft more of an opportunity to expand and float market shares. ...
• Aboulafia explained that much of the success of Airbus has rested in company's approach to business, unlike its competitor Boeing. ...
• Airbus, on the other hand, puts market shares first over shareholder profitability. ...
• Additionally, Airbus has focused in the last decade on investing in more products than Boeing and has been better at reinforcing their product lines. In the last five years, Airbus has introduced the A318 and A340, while Boeing only introduced the 767 which ended up failing. ...
• Who will win: Boeing or Airbus?.

• GLOBAL Talks on Airbus Subsidies Hit Snags.
• Trying to avert a trans-Atlantic trade war over government subsidies to Airbus, U. ...
• The Bush administration and the Boeing (NYSE: BA) have demanded a 12-year-old treaty with the Europeans be scrapped and a new one negotiated that eliminates the Airbus subsidies.
• Restating a White House threat, Veroneau said that if the Europeans failed to negotiate, the United States would consider taking an Airbus subsidy case to the World Trade Organization, which arbitrates international trade disputes.
• The 1992 treaty allowed European governments to provide Airbus with about one-third of the money it needed to launch a new aircraft, though the subsidy was supposed to decline over time. The treaty was negotiated at a time when Boeing was the dominant manufacturer of commercial airplanes, but Airbus has now outpaced Boeing.
• Boeing has said that about one-third of the $13 billion Airbus has spent developing its new 555-seat superjumbo A-380 airliner was provided by European governments. ...
• The White House and Boeing are seeking an end to any future Airbus subsidies, particularly for a possible Airbus competitor for the new 7E7 Dreamliner.
• Patty Murray, D-Washington, stepped up her criticism yesterday of Airbus subsidies during a speech before about 800 Boeing suppliers in Washington, D. ...
• In addition to pursuing a possible WTO case, Murray suggested the United States could hold Europeans accountable by filing a challenge against Airbus using U. ...
• Murray also defended the Washington state incentive package Boeing had received for its 7E7 plant, saying Airbus received a similar package from Mississippi when it built a plant there. ...
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• Cabin Gabbin': Airbus To Allow In-Flight Cell Use (16-Sep-04) .

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