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Plans to convert in firm orders up to 8 A350-900 options for Iberia
Subject to final contractual negotiations, IAG plans to convert in firm orders up to 8 A350-900 options for Iberia to expand and renew their long haul fleet.Iberia is making plans to open new routes to...
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A350-1000s engine delivered to Toulouse.
A year after it powered to life for the 1st time in a concrete-walled test cell, the engine for the largest variant of the Airbus A350 has departed Rolls-Royce’s factory in Derby, and has start making...
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A350 VTP assembly process improvement.
For carbon-fiber structural content of the A350, the assembly issues with composites must be overcome. “It´s a costly problem” said Maria Weiland, R&T director at Saab Aerostructures and...
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Delighted with the performance of the engine on the first A350-900.
“One of our key challenges this year is the customer build-up on the -84,” Tim Boddy, head of marketing for the program, said.Source: AirbusBoddy said he and his colleagues are “delighted” with the...
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Main differences between A350-900 and A350-1000 engines.
Although Tim Boddy, head of marketing for the program, said “the Trent XWB-84 was always designed with growth potential”, you would have to be a bit of an expert to spot the differences between the...
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Iberia converts to firm orders 8 options of A350-900.
International Airlines Group (IAG) has signed a firm order for 8 A350-900s within a complete order for 31 Airbus aircraft (which includes 3 A330-200s and 20 A320neos).The A350s are slated for Iberia’s...
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The A350´s centre of reference has moved forward the A350-1000.
Airbus is sounding out operators to determine whether there is a realistic demand of an aircraft larger than the A350-1000.While the discussions and its own internal studies are only preliminary, they...
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Spirit Aerosystems ramps up the A350 deliveries
"In June, we celebrated our 10th anniversary, and I would like to congratulate Spirit's employees around the globe on what they have accomplished," said President and Chief Executive Officer Larry...
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Garuda Indonesia´s Letter of Intent for 30 A350s could be cancelled.
Garuda Indonesia CEO Arif Wibowo signed last June a Letter of Intent with Airbus for 30 A350 XWB aircraft.But some discussions within Indonesian Government suggest that the future order could be...
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German Minister of labour visits A350 production site at Stade
German Minister Olaf Lies said that as an engineer, he was impressed by the complexity of the products manufactured in Stade Airbus site and by the possibilities of use of composite materials.The...
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Family Day at Spirit Saint-Nazaire site, where A350 large aerostructures are...
Spirit’s facility in Saint-Nazaire, France, hosted a Family Day Open House event in honor of Spirit’s 10th anniversary as a company in late-June.A total of 300 visitors, including employees and their...
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Certified lithium-ion batteries for A350 will include SAFT´s BattCare for...
French Group SAFT, batteries supplier for A350 XWB, presented at Le Bourget airshow the certification of the lithium - ion battery that will be installed from MSN21 and on. To remark the very high...
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Airbus confirms A350-900LR plans, for the longest non-stop commercial air...
Airbus is working on a new variant of its A350-900 wide-body that would allow Singapore Airlines to restore nonstop U.S. flights and regain the record for the world’s longest airline sector.Source:...
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Qatar Airways’ A350 Economy Cabin awarded by the Australian Business Traveller.
Qatar Airways, crowned Airline of the Year at the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2015, won 2 awards at the recent Australian Business Traveller Awards.The Doha-based carrier’s superjumbo A380 Lounge was...
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Trent XWB-97 engine for A350-1000 status and roadmap.
Rolls-Royce will build 8 XWB-97 development engines in total and has run 5 of them.The test program has just passed the 1.000 cycle milestone with the company claiming “good results so far” and “high...
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Automated Flex Track driller on Spirit´s A350 fuselage manufacturing.
To join the upper and forward lower shell (Section 15) composite fuselage panels of the Airbus A350 XWB aircraft, Spirit contracted AIT to develop the world’s first automated Flex Track driller with...
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Qatar Airways will fly with A350s to Germany in coming months to get premium...
Qatar Airways will upgrade all its German services to Airbus A350s as more jets are delivered.The carrier is capitalising on a near 2-year lead over Germany’s Lufthansa in receiving the industry’s...
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Sabena Technics approved for A350 MRO.
Independent MRO Sabena Technics has gained Part 145-approval from the French Civil Aviation Authority covering the A350.The certification enables Sabena to provide airframe MRO services on the all-new...
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Finnair will use the A350 XWB to establish Helsinki as a bridge to Northeast...
Finnair is looking at adding routes to Chinese cities not currently connected to Europe as it takes delivery of the region’s newest wide-body jet fleet.Source: AirbusFinnair, which will become the 1st...
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This is what MAKS visitors will see inside A350.
MSN1 first flying prototype is visiting MAKS Russian Airshow this week.This first prototype with register F-WXWB has a very interesting interior as it is being used for exploring the flight envelope...
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