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Rolls-Royce suspends Airbus A380 engine production for one year


 


LONDON, Oct 6, 2006 (UNI)


British aerospace giant Rolls-Royce said Friday that it had suspended production of its Trent 900 jet engines for 12 months owing to fresh delays to the Airbus A380 superjumbo.


The Trent 900 was created especially for the Airbus A380, which will be the world’s biggest commercial passenger jet when it finally enters service.


Deliveries of the A380 superjumbo jet will be delayed by another year on average, the program’s third setback since June 2005, Airbus parent company EADS had said Tuesday.


A Rolls spokesman meanwhile said on Friday:


‘‘Yesterday we informed our employees that following the Airbus announcement on Tuesday we have suspended production of the Trent 900 for about 12 months because obviously we don’t need to be building engines if Airbus is not building aircraft.’’


Rolls Royca has also said that it is waiting for word from Airbus on whether to start engine design fdr the Airbus A350. Airbus had indicated yesterday that it is seriously examining whether the Airbus A350 project is viable now after the delys to the A380 program.   





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Report: Airbus chief said to be close to stepping down 


Paris, Oct 8, 2006 (UNI) 


The rumours may finally be true.


The head of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus, Christian Streiff, is set to resign because of a power struggle with the executives of the firm’s parent company, EADS, the International Herald Tribune reported Monday.


According to the Paris-based English-language daily, Streiff’s resignation could come as early as later on Monday. Airbus on Monday refused to comment on Streiff’s status.


Citing three anonymous sources ‘‘with direct knowledge of the situation,’’ the newspaper said the conflict between Streiff and his superiors at EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company) centred on how much autonomy he and his staff would have in implementing the plan to rescue Airbus from its present crisis that was announced last week.


The crisis was provoked by production problems of the Airbus A380 superjumbo, which has now delayed delivery to its customers of the largest commercial airliner ever built by up to two years, costing the company 4.8 billion euros over four years. Streiff was hired on July 2 to replace Gustav Humbert after the announcement of a second A380 delivery delay sent EADS shares plunging on European bourses.


On September 29, Streiff presented an extensive restructuring plan to EADS executives that included significant job cuts and the transfer of all A380 production from the German city of Hamburg to Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, in southern France. Streiff was also for abandoning the Airbus A350 project. 


According to the International Herald Tribune, which cited a person with ‘‘knowledge of the proceedings,’’ Streiff threatened to resign in protest after his suggestions were rejected. The daily Le Monde reported in its weekend edition that Streiff also demanded the power to hire and a clear chain of command so that he would not be short-circuited and would not have to justify every decision to EADS management. However, stung repeatedly by revelations of A380 delivery delays and cost overruns, the management of EADS insisted on having more of a say in Airbus business and production. In addition, Streiff’s proposal to move A380 production from Hamburg to Toulouse set off political alarm bells in Germany, and forced EADS co-chief Thomas Enders to say that Hamburg was ‘‘our second most important production site, and we are committed to it.’’


On Friday, the French business daily La Tribune reported that Streiff had already made moves to look for another job, reportedly meeting with members of the Peugeot family about taking over the French car-maker’s top job when its present head, Jean-Martin Folz, retires at the end of the year.



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EADS to replace Streiff with Gallois as Airbus chief: source


 


PARIS, Oct 9, 2006 (UNI) 


The European aerospace group EADS is ready to replace Christian Streiff as chief executive of its aircraft subsidiary Airbus with EADS co-chairman Louis Gallois, a source close to the matter told foreign agency AFP on Monday.


The European Aeronautic Defence and Space company (EADS) expected to accept Streiff’s mooted resignation, the source said.



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EADS to replace Streiff with Gallois as Airbus chief: source


 


PARIS, Oct 9, 2006 (UNI) 


The European aerospace group EADS is ready to replace Christian Streiff as chief executive of its aircraft subsidiary Airbus with EADS co-chairman Louis Gallois, a source close to the matter told foreign agency AFP on Monday.


The European Aeronautic Defence and Space company (EADS) expected to accept Streiff’s mooted resignation, the source said.




But I read just now on CNN that french PM has asked Streiff "not to resign". This is latest

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Also CNN says that Airbus has confirmed 226 aircraft orders from Jan-Sept this year.


Quite less that Boeing i feel. Although im not sure about the figures.



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Airbus chief departs
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9 October 2006


Airbus lost its second chief executive in three months today after his plans for resolving a crisis caused by delays to the A380 superjumbo offended Germany and opened a rift with parent EADS.


As the planemaker announced the resignation of Chief Executive Christian Streiff, Germany's finance minister hinted at the political tensions behind the current problems by telling the company to treat its German factories 'equally'.


Streiff is replaced by Louis Gallois, co-chief executive of EADS. The resignation announcement came on the 100th day since Streiff's appointment - a milestone the former glass industry chief had set for finding out why Airbus was floundering.


'Christian Streiff will leave Airbus and will be replaced by Louis Gallois,' the source said, adding that Gallois would keep his duties at EADS.


The office of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who had backed Streiff on Sunday, said that Villepin had met Gallois for talks on Monday.


Gallois used to run Aerospatiale, one of the European aerospace groups that were folded into a merged EADS in 2000.


Hired in July to resolve a crisis over A380 delays and Airbus's declining market share, Streiff put his job on the line last week by asking the EADS board to back or sack him over his plans for a radical overhaul, a source close to the matter said.


But support from the French and German heads of EADS dwindled amid criticism of Streiff's no-nonsense approach to reshaping the company, and by Monday the EADS board was ready to accept Streiff's resignation, a source close to the firm said.


'It's true,' the source said, asked about speculation that the EADS board was resigned to parting with Streiff and beginning the search for a fourth Airbus chief in 18 months.


An industry source who closely watches EADS said the former glass industry boss's position had become untenable after he exposed deep flaws in Airbus's industrial methods and raised the prospect of sensitive job cuts without adequate political cover.


Streiff said last week Airbus needed a radical cost-cutting plan and industrial streamlining to save €2bn a year because of internal inefficiencies and a weak dollar that benefits demand for planes built by rival Boeing.


Germany responded icily to his plans, especially to suggestions that Airbus teams in Hamburg were responsible for the wiring installation faults that have pushed the A380 two years behind schedule by working on obsolete design software.


'It's important to us that German factories be treated equally in view of current difficulties,' Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck told reporters on Monday on the margins of a meeting of EU finance ministers.



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Airbus!!! Don't sink. Please!!!



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Airbus’ new chief says exchange rates are the biggest threat to the business
PARIS, Oct. 10 (UNI) 


The new chief executive of Airbus pledged job cuts at the troubled planemaker and said Tuesday that its biggest handicap against rival Boeing is the weak dollar — not deep production delays in a superjumbo that are battering profits and shaking up Airbus management.
Parent company EADS named one of its CEOs, Louis Gallois, to lead Airbus on Monday, after his predecessor Christian Streiff resigned just three months into the job. Gallois also continues to serve as co-chief of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Company NV.
Gallois said on Europe-1 radio Tuesday morning that a new recovery plan ‘‘will be painful, because there will be job cuts.’’
He gave no figures or other details of the recovery plan, except to say that the company would discuss with employees and unions ‘‘how to move forward together.’’
The CGT union said last week the predicted cuts would involve about 2,000 employees at four French facilities.
Gallois did not focus on the delays with the A380 superjumbo that have sent EADS stock sinking this year and frustrated airlines worldwide. Instead, he focused on the weak dollar.
‘‘Airbus’ principal handicap vis a vis Boeing is the dollar that has collapsed,’’ he said. Airbus’ expenses are largely in the stronger euro.
Workers ‘‘know the constraints we live under, they know the dollar exchange rate and they know that the dollar will not recover,’’ Gallois said.
Gallois also said that he disagreed with Streiff’s warning that it would take 15 years to turn Airbus around.
Streiff’s departure dealt a fresh blow to crisis-hit Airbus. The plane maker, which stunned investors in June by doubling the A380 superjumbo’s production delay to one year, doubled it again this month to two years and said the holdups would wipe a total of euro4.8 billion (US$6.1 billion) off EADS profits over four years.
Streiff drew up a cost-cutting turnaround plan for Airbus that enjoyed strong support from EADS directors, but he clashed with the board over how the plan should be implemented and how much control he would personally exercise, according to three officials familiar with the discussions.
In an interview in Tuesday’s Le Figaro, Streiff said he had not been allowed the ‘‘necessary operational powers’’ to do the job effectively and welcomed as ‘‘a step in the right direction’’ the combination of the Airbus and EADS roles for Gallois.
EADS owns 80 percent of Airbus and is tightening up supervision of the civil jet unit as it acquires the remaining 20 percent from Britain’s BAE Systems PLC.
After concentrating massive resources on the superjumbo, Airbus was taken by surprise by Boeing’s two-engine 787, which delivers better fuel economy than older four-engined Airbus jets in the same size category — a sales argument that has grown more persuasive with higher fuel prices.
Airbus took orders for 226 jets through Sept. 30, compared with the 723 announced by Boeing for the year through Oct. 3.
Shares in European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. fell Monday ahead of Streiff’s resignation but rose slightly Tuesday morning, gaining 0.55 percent to euro20.27 (US$25.55).



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Louis Gallois appointed new Airbus President and Chief Executive Officer.
10 October 2006




Louis Gallois took office at Airbus' headquarters in Toulouse today, meeting with the Airbus Executives, as well as with the local Officials and Union representatives. This follows his appointment yesterday evening by the EADS Board of Directors as new President and Chief Executive Officer of Airbus with immediate effect. Mr Gallois remains Co-CEO of EADS, a position he held since July 2006. Mr Gallois succeeds Christian Streiff, who has resigned from this position. Mr Gallois joins Airbus with a vast experience in the aviation business, having been head of SNECMA (now Safran) and Aerospatiale (now part of EADS) in the late 80ies and 90ies.

A graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) and in Economic Science, as well as of the Ecole Nationale de l'Administration (ENA), Louis Gallois started his career in 1972 in the staff of the French Department of the Treasury. In 1981 he became Head of the Cabinet Office of the Ministry of Research and Industry, becoming Director General for Industry in the same Ministry one year later. In 1988 he was nominated to the position of Head of the Civil and Military Cabinet office of the French Ministry of Defence.

In 1989, Louis Gallois moved to the industry, being first appointed Chairman and CEO of the aeronautical engine manufacturer SNECMA, now part of Safran. In 1992, he became Chairman and CEO of French aerospace manufacturer Aerospatiale (now part of EADS). In this capacity he was a member of the Airbus Industrie Groupement d'Intérêt Economique (GIE) Supervisory Board, and in charge of the Aerospatiale Airbus Division. From 1996 until June 2006, Louis Gallois was Chairman of the French National Railways (SNCF). Since the creation of EADS in 2001, he was also a member of the grouping's Board of Directors.

Louis Gallois is also a Board member of the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (school of Engineering) as well as Chairman of the Fondation Villette-Entreprises.

Born in January 1944, Louis Gallois is married with three children.

Louis Gallois hold the title of Officier de l'ordre National du mérite (Officer of the French notional order of merit) and Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (officier of the French legion of Honour).


http://www.airbus.com/en/presscentre/pressreleases/pressreleases_items/06_10_10_louis_gallois.html



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Airbus website is not functioning. Any one else experience the same or is it only me?



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Turbulence hits second launch at Airbus
By David Robertson
 
THE Airbus A350 may be delayed until 2014, senior figures in the aviation industry have predicted.
The aircraft, which will compete with Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, has already been sent back for a redesign and was due to come into service in 2012.


Airbus is expected to announce the industrial launch — the formal commitment to build — of the A350 in the next few weeks, but the delivery date appears to be sliding backwards. At 2014 it would be a full six years behind the delivery of the first Boeing 787.


Airbus said that any talk of a slip in the launch date was just speculation.


The European aircraft manufacturer has suffered a miserable year. It is under its third chief executive in three months and has announced a succession of delays to its flagship A380 superjumbo project.


The Boeing 787 is the most successful aircraft launch in aviation history and already it has won 455 orders worth $67 billion (£36 billion). Airlines have jumped at the chance to buy a plane that is 20 per cent more fuel efficient than current competitor models.


Its fuel efficiency comes from being 50 per cent made from composites — hardened plastics. This makes the aircraft lighter and therefore it burns less fuel, making it cheaper to run and more environmentally friendly.


In order to regain the initiative, Airbus is looking at producing an all-composite A350, which would, in fact, be 70 per cent plastic, as some parts have to remain metal. According to Airbus’s suppliers, the company wants to go all-composite and is talking about the equipment needed to do this.


It is thought to be looking at making the aircraft from “black aluminium”; panels of carbon fibre that would be riveted together in the same way as existing aluminium panels.


Aviation sources say it is now accepted within Airbus that the A350 will not be delivered in 2012 but in late 2013 or 2014.


This will be the second aircraft in a row that Airbus has failed to deliver on time — the A380 will also be two years’ late when the first delivery is made late next year.


A spokesman for Airbus said: “Reports of a further two-year delay to the A350 programme are just speculation. With the decision on an industrial launch of the programme this year, possibly as early as the end of October, it will be possible to be more definitive then.”


If the A350 is delayed until 2014, it will effectively hand the mid-size market to Boeing as the American company will have a five to six-year headstart.


Pushing delivery back to 2014 also starts to run into the proposed development window for the next generation of single-aisle aircraft that will replace the Boeing 737 and Airbus 320.


Boeing is thought to be aiming to introduce a new version of the 737, commonly known as the workhorse of the skies, in 2015 or 2016.


Some aviation analysts believe that Airbus should postpone the A350 indefinitely to be sure that it can redevelop the A320 before the 737.
 
 



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Delay in the A350 is obvious. It is the side effect of the delays due to A380. 

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Airbus has confirmed 8 A380 orders from Qantas. That makes their total to 20



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Airbus A380 jets off for tests in Asia from the eye of a storm


by Gilles Ramel


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TOULOUSE, France, Nov 9, 2006 


As rain clouds gather over European aircraft maker Airbus, the giant plane at the root of its problems is set to jet off on for a tour of the Asia region next Monday for a final round of technical tests.


The A380 superjumbo, set to be the biggest passenger plane in the world when it enters service next year, is to make seven stops in Asia in addition to visits to Australia, South Africa and Canada during a 17-day test mission around the globe.


On-board engineers and certified test pilots will put the plane through its paces under simulated commercial conditions, including test landings at key airports, refueling practices and maintenance work.


The latest flights, which are expected to be the last major tests before approval from regulators in December, come at a difficult time for Airbus amid a hailstorm of bad publicity for its star project.


On Tuesday, US mail group FedEx announced it had cancelled an order for 10 cargo versions of the A380 because of delays to deliveries of the aircraft.


Airbus has been forced to push back its timetable for deliveries of the A380 three times because of problems encountered when wiring the cabins, with delays now estimated at about two years.


The FedEx decision marked the first time an A380 client had cancelled its order and served as a victory for arch rival Boeing of the United States, which picked up an order from FedEx for 15 of its 777 freighter planes.


The delays to the A380, added to uncertainty surrounding the Airbus A350 mid-sized jetliner project and the A400M military plane, have led Airbus to announce a deep restructuring plan of job cuts, costs savings from suppliers and greater efficiency in the manufacturing process.


The company has also suffered from abrupt management changes and sluggish sales at a time when Boeing has gone from strength-to-strength on the back of buoyant demand for its 787 Dreamliner jet.


The A380 will leave Airbus headquarters near the southern French city of Toulouse on Monday for its first test flight, heading for Singapore then the South Korean capital Seoul on November 15.


A second test flight will take it to Hong Kong on November 18 then Narita in Japan on November 19, while a third test flight is to encompass airports in China, namely Guangzhou on November 22 then Beijing and Shanghai on November 23.


The final flight from the Toulouse headquarters includes a stopover in Johannesburg in South Africa on November 26, then Sydney in Australia and the western Canadian port of Vancouver on November 29.


The four flights will result in 150 hours of flying under normal conditions and test the plane in some of the biggest airports in the world.


The flight to Singapore on Monday will carry pilots from European and US certification bodies, the European Aviation Safety Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration, who will be on board to monitor the aircraft.


Capable of carrying between 555-840 passengers depending on the seating lay-out chosen by the airline, the A380 is forecast to enter service in the second half of 2007 with Singapore Airlines, which has ordered 10 of the planes.


Sixteen airlines have placed a total of 149 firm orders for the plane.


The repeated delays to the A380 led Airbus parent company EADS to report a third-quarter loss of 195 million euros (249 million dollars) on Wednesday, a sharp reversal of its fortunes after a profit of 279 million euros in the same period of last year.


 EADS, or the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, acknowledged it had to take ‘‘drastic measures’’ to keep up with Boeing and French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed to visit Airbus headquarters next week to ‘‘find solutions’’ to the company’s woes.


 


 


 


Fed-Ex has cancelled its A380 order. Has gone in for 777s.



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This is indeed a setback for the A380F program...now rumours floating around that even UPS might cancel its A380F deal and go for B748iF instead



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Airbus boosts 20-year sales forecast by USD600 billion, sticks by A380 outlook. In the two years since Airbus produced its 20-year Global Market Forecast, much has changed for the manufacturer, and the airline industry.


The latest forecast adds some USD600 billion to the total order value and a massive 5,400 aircraft to the outlook, despite a sizeable cut in the average annual passenger growth forecast from 5.3% to 4.8%. The aircraft forecast is boosted by revised growth estimates for China and India, particularly in the single-aisle segment, while countries in the former Soviet Union have been added to the forecast this year for the first time.


The key differences in its 2004 vs 2006 forecasts are as follows:



Source: Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation and Airbus


Other highlights include:



  • Average annual deliveries jump to 1,100 passenger aircraft, up from around 830 in the last forecast;
  • Demand for 1,660 very large (A380-size) aircraft valued at USD503 billion, of which some 1,260 are new passenger aircraft (compared to 1,250 in the last forecast) plus 400 freighters in this category. The Asia Pacific is expected to account for 56% of the total. (Airbus' outlook is well above the 990 aircraft Boeing predicts will be required in the 400+ seat category, which includes B747-8s and A380s);
  • Asian low cost segment is expected to increase its fleet from 236 to over 1,300 aircraft by 2025;
  • Asian region, in total, is expected to grow to a third of the worldwide aircraft market by 2025.

The forecast also gives the strongest hint yet that Airbus would continue with the A350XWB programme. The outlook for the 250-300 seat segment has been boosted to 3,750 aircraft – a market Airbus would be unwilling to hand to Boeing.


Source- Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation



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Airbus' new site to promote A350


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New destination for Airbus!!! (Dec. 11. 2006)


BBC News says that the Australian Govt is going to use an Airbus A319 for its Antarctic mission. Plane will be used to operate from Hobart and Sydney on missions to the Antarctic. A319 will also be stationed there for a few days.


Travel time will just be 4 hours instead of a 10-day ship ride.


Interesting. 


 





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New destination for Airbus!!! (Dec. 11. 2006)


BBC News says that the Australian Govt is going to use an Airbus A319 for its Antarctic mission. Plane will be used to operate from Hobart and Sydney on missions to the Antarctic. A319 will also be stationed there for a few days.


Travel time will just be 4 hours instead of a 10-day ship ride.


Interesting. 


 





-- Edited by karatecatman at 14:39, 2006-12-11




But where is Antarctic exactly? And have preparations been made already?


boy AKLDELNonstop and Myself were discussing once about a trip there... Hey Shub ready???



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