Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has confirmed it has cancelled its orders for the Airbus A380 Super Jumbo. Virgin has deferred the aircraft for a number of years but the official cancellation came in February when the orders were taken off Airbus’ books. The cancellation was shown in Airbus’ February order-and-delivery list [read more]
Key US airline Delta Airlines (DL/DAL) has ordered 100 Airbus A321neo aircraft from the European airframer in a snub to US-based Boeing. Traditionally a Boeing operator, the Atlanta based airline has chosen the Airbus A321neo over the Boeing 737max10 in order to refresh its fleet of ageing 737’s & A320 aircraft. [read more]
Engineering company Morson Projects has today announced it has recruited 14 experienced aviation engineers who previously worked for Marshall Aviation Services. Marshall Aviation Services closed their operation at Broughton in Flintshire earlier this year caused the loss of around 140 jobs at the North Wales site. The announcement by Morson Projects [read more]
Airbus has said that it faces a “challenging year” when it released its 1st Quarter update. The airframer which employs over 6000 people in Wales had anticipated the challenging start to 2016 however it does expect the commercial outlook to improve as the year progresses. The new orders for the [read more]
Airbus and Rolls Royce have signed a deal with South East Asia airline Garuda Indonesia worth £4bn. The deal to upgrade Garuda’s fleet of Airbus A330 to A330NEO aircraft is estimated to be worth around £1bn to the UK economy with the wings being made at Airbus Broughton in North [read more]
Airbus has improved the wing assembly procedure for the Airbus A350XWB at its Broughton plant in North Wales. When Airbus designed the wing for the A350 it was designed to be built horizontally as opposed to the traditional vertical build. The advantage being the wing never has to be rotated [read more]
Airbus has today started production of the new wing for the Airbus A350-1000 XWB aircraft at Broughton in Flintshire, North Wales. Measuring 32 metres long and 6 metres wide it is the largest carbon fibre wing ever made for a commercial airliner. It was designed by Airbus in Bristol and [read more]
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