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Travel lockdown triggers another 18,000 job cuts: Aircraft maker Airbus and tour operator Tui reveal plans to axe staff By Tom Witherow and Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 13 May 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 13 May 2020 Airbus and Tui are set to slash thousands of jobs as planes around … Read more
Sir Stelios offers a £5m reward to anyone who can help him stop Easyjet’s £4.5bn deal with Airbus By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 23:36 BST, 12 May 2020 | Updated: 00:20 BST, 13 May 2020 Easyjet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou wants the budget airline to cancel an order with Airbus for 107 … Read more
Airbus will debut electronic odor detector to sniff out explosives and other hazardous substances in airport security lines by the end of 2020 The plane manufacturer will begin using a new sensor to detect bombs The cutting edge device will use a processor with integrated biological cells Airbus says the sensors will roll out in … Read more
Aerospace industry is facing its ‘gravest ever crisis’, says Airbus boss as arch-rival Boeing axes 15,000 jobs By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 29 April 2020 | Updated: 22:04 BST, 29 April 2020 Plane manufacturer Airbus described the Covid-19 pandemic as the ‘gravest crisis the aerospace industry has ever known’ as … Read more
Airbus warns staff it is ‘bleeding cash’: Jobs at risk and shake-up looms as 3,200 furloughed By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 27 April 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 27 April 2020 Thousands of UK jobs could be at risk after Airbus warned it is ‘bleeding cash’ and may not survive … Read more
Airbus has furloughed 3,200 UK staff after the boss said the firm is ‘bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed’. Workers at the Broughton factory in Wales will be furloughed and the company will apply for the Government’s job retention scheme. It comes after the chief executive of aerospace multinational Airbus warned that the company is … Read more
A large airplane carrying 448 people was seconds away from disaster as the crew believed the plane was higher than it actually was, narrowly avoiding crashing into a Moscow suburb. The crew of an Emirates Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger airliners, descended far below the intended flight path after mistakenly believing that the plane … Read more
British Airways Airbus crashes into an Emirates jet as it pulls out from the gate at Dubai airport A six-month-old Airbus A350 crashed into an Emirates jet on a Dubai runway The plane, which had no passengers, was on its way back to Heathrow airport Images from the collision show crumpled metal on the Boeing’s … Read more
Now Stelios refers Easyjet to the City watchdog as row over £4.5bn plane order from Airbus escalates By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:46 BST, 14 April 2020 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 14 April 2020 Easyjet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannau has been at loggerheads with the board for weeks Easyjet’s outspoken founder has … Read more
EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou warns budget airline will ‘run out of money by August’ as he calls for firm to cancel £4.5billion Airbus order Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou renews calls to cancel £4.5 billion Airbus plane order He also called on the Luton-based airline to sack finance chief Andrew Findlay Sir Stelios had previously requested … Read more