Aircraft News - Europe.Mar 26, 2007 Airbus Airbus 380 gets positive reception in U.S. The Airbus A380 has faced criticism for delivery delays and high development costs. However, the plane received a positive reception when it visited the U.S. this week. "It's a remarkable airplane, a phenomenal feat of engineering," Rakesh Gangwal, co-founder of the Indian carrier Indigo and former US Airways chief executive, said. "You have a lot of skeptics today, because many minds have not yet fathomed how this plane will be used." Mar 22, 2007 Airbus Development A380s land at JNew York[sup.1]s FK, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. LAX A380 development aircraft MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). 7 (number 7 off the production line), with nearly 500 passengers onboard and operated with assistance from Lufthansa, made a smooth landing at New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK shortly after noon yesterday, becoming the first of the aircraft type to land at a US airport. Mar 20, 2007 Airbus Onboard the A380 The A380 landed in the US for the first time yesterday, at New York JFK's Terminal 1, following a quiet flight from Frankfurt that took 45 min. less than the 7 hr. 45 min. scheduled flight scheduled flight schedule n → vol régulier scheduled flight schedule n → Linienflug m time. Mar 20, 2007 Airbus A380 touches down in U.S. on Monday Hundreds of onlookers watched the Airbus A380 superjumbo land in the U.S. on Monday. Separate flights landed in New York and Los Angeles, and one will make a demonstration flight in Chicago today before returning to Frankfurt. Airbus hopes the A380's U.S. tour generates interest in the plane, which is two years behind delivery schedule Mar 20, 2007 Airbus, Aeroflot Aeroflot modernizing with Airbus A350 XWB XWB Extra Wide Body (Airbus) commitment, e-ticketing Aeroflot yesterday followed up on its verbal commitment to the A350 XWB by signing an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. with Airbus for the purchase of 22 of the model. Mar 23, 2007 Airbus, Boeing WTO See World Trade Organization. holds hearings on aircraft subsidies U.S. representatives told the World Trade Organization that government subsidies have allowed Airbus to develop a line f jetliners "targeted at U.S. competitors." Airbus counters that federal and state tax breaks have helped Boeing develop its 787. Hearings on subsidy issues began Tuesday in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. . Mar 22, 2007 Airbus, Etihad Airways Etihad Airways (Arabic: الإتحاد, ʼal-ʻitiħād) is the flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates. Etihad is based in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE. Etihad Airways Rules Out Cancelling A380. Etihad Airways said on Thursday it ruled out cancelling its order for four of Airbus's delayed A380s and may also consider buying the European maker's planned twin-engine A350 as the Gulf Arab carrier expands. Mar 22, 2007 Airbus, Lufthansa Airbus A380 to make first flight to U.S. today An Airbus A380 operated by Germany's Lufthansa is expected to land in New York today at 12:30 p.m. For Airbus, the A380's first flight to the U.S. is a chance to prove the plane will be ready for the first deliveries scheduled for October. It also hopes to show off the plane to U.S. carriers. United Airlines and Northwest Airlines are considered potential customers. Mar 19, 2007 Alpi Eagles AlpiEagles (IATA: E8, ICAO: ELG, and Callsign: ALPI EAGLES)[1] is an airline based in Italy. It is a privately owned regional airline operating scheduled passenger services linking 15 domestic destinations, as well as international services to , Embraer Alpi Eagles of Italy ordered five Embraer E-195s, plus five options and six purchase rights, Embraer announced yesterday. The order, which had been listed as "undisclosed" in the manufacturer's order book, will be valued at $584 million if all options and purchase rights are exercised. Based in Venice, Alpi is the launch customer for the high-capacity, 122-seat, single-class E-195, which was announced at Farnborough last July. According to its website, the carrier operates eight F100s to 23 Italian and European destinations. Mar 20, 2007 First Choice Airways, GE Aviation, Boeing, GE Aviation said First Choice Airways selected the GEnx to power the four Boeing, 787s it ordered earlier this month with an engine order valued at more than $125 million. GE said the 830 GEnx orders from 28 customers are worth more than $10 billion. Mar 23, 2007 OnAir, SITA, Airbus OnAir, the SITA-Airbus joint venture, appointed ARINC ARINC Aeronautical Radio, Inc. ARINC Aircraft Radio Incorporated ARINC Aeronautical Research Incorporated VP and MD-Europe, Middle East and Africa Graham Lake as CCO (Chief or Corporate Compliance Officer) The executive person in charge of compliance issues, regulatory requirements, internal controls and managing audits within an enterprise or organization. . 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