Press releases

Aircalin (Air Caledonie International) has signed a contract with Airbus for an A320, becoming a new customer for the type. It will receive the A320 in early 2004, and plans to use it on flights from New Caledonia to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, including Wallis and Futuna.

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Business aviation specialist PrivatAir has selected the A319 Long-Range for the nonstop, scheduled, international transatlantic service that it will operate on behalf of Lufthansa, becoming another launch customer for this new way of using the aircraft.

PrivatAir will take delivery of the f...

Garuda Indonesia received an Airbus award for operational reliability for its fleet of A330 aircraft at an official ceremony in Jakarta today. The airline currently operates a fleet of six A330 aircraft, which are deployed on the carrier?s regional network. The first A330 was delivered to Garuda Ind...

Following the death of Jean-Luc Lagardère, Noël Forgeard, President and CEO of Airbus made the following statement:

"On behalf of all at Airbus as well as personally, I pay my deepest respects to the memory of Jean-Luc Lagardère, a remarkable entrepreneur whose stature dominated the French and Euro...

Toronto ? JetBlue Airways has signed a three-year agreement for training services with Airbus (Paris Stock Exchange: EAD) and CAE (NYSE: CGT; TSX: CAE), and will acquire three CAE-supplied flight training devices (FTD). The total value of the contracts, including training within the Airbus-CAE coope...

Airbus aircraft with a Tenzing-developed means for passengers to send and receive emails in-flight have entered widespread airline service, marking the start of a new era in aircraft connectivity.

Cathay Pacific Airways, in partnership with Hong Kong Internet service provider PCCW NETVIGATO...

Following the information published in the media about the US Airways failed payments due on 23 Airbus aircraft, Airbus would like to make these precise comments:

1. The amount of $44.5 million mentioned in the press reports corresponds to total payments due by the airline on March 3 to all...

TOULOUSE, France (February 24, 2003) ? Airbus and Tenzing today unveiled the next step in their evolutionary approach to in-flight internet access, announcing the successful completion of the first full-scale test of Tenzing email services using the INMARSAT Swift 64 service over a standard high-gai...

The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus announced today the participation of three more leading Japanese companies in the A380 programme. Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Casio Computers Co. Ltd., and Makino Milling Machines Co. Ltd. have agreed to supply equipment for the next-generation super jum...

Air Pacific has decided to acquire two Airbus A330-300s and has taken options on two more, becoming a new customer for the market-leading A330/A340 Family. Deliveries of the aircraft are scheduled to begin in 2005.

Air Pacific will initially use the A330s on routes to Australia, Japan and Ne...