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Airbus SE has been notifying some customers of delays on A320neo series jets that are due to be delivered in 2027 and 2028, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Airbus is closing in on a widebody order from Scandinavia's biggest airline SAS AB, which includes a mix of the Airbus A330neo and the more advanced A350, with about 15 to 20 aircraft under consideration, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.

Airbus is wavering over when to launch a larger A220 jet due to a muted response from powerful leasing companies and a debate over range and performance, six industry sources said.

Airbus delivered 81 aircraft in May, up 59% from the same month last year and bringing its total deliveries to 262 so far this year, the planemaker said on Friday in its monthly report.

Boeing is exploring raising production of its bestselling 737 jet beyond its publicly stated target of 63 aircraft per month, the Air Current reported on Thursday.

Qantas is in talks with planemakers over a possible deal to purchase around 20 Airbus or Boeing wide-body jets, industry sources said.

Airbus delivered 81 aircraft in May, up sharply from a year earlier, partly due to the release of planes caught up in a regulatory stand-off with China, industry sources said.

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French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is expanding into advanced manufacturing, striking deals with new customers Airbus and BMW as it looks to so-called physical AI to fuel growth. Mistral is also announcing a new data centre in France.

The former four-star general warned that drone warfare had reshaped conflict and exposed defense gaps. Autonomous swarms have emerged as the next challenge for militaries globally.

The head of Airbus Defence ruled out the complete failure of the crisis-hit Franco-German FCAS fighter jet project, saying at least a networking system for weapons and drone programme would go ahead.

A video of a four-year-old Spirit jet being dismantled in the desert went viral over the weekend. The Airbus plane's Pratt & Whitney GTF engines are as valuable as a full aircraft right now.

For the past several months, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has delayed the final approval that allows Airbus jets to enter the country and be put into service, according to people familiar with the matter. The move signals impatience with how long European regulators are taking to certify Chinese-made aircraft.

China has been stalling the approval of Airbus deliveries to signal impatience with European regulators' delay in certifying Chinese-made COMAC aircraft, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

Airbus said delivery of the first of a batch of long-distance passenger jets to Australia's Qantas Airways has been delayed as supply-chain issues buffet the plane maker.

Few dispute that Boeing will have a new narrow-body in place over the next decade, but the question is in what form and what it will take to get there.

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Ruling marks rare instance of companies' being found criminally liable for crash of a jetliner; plane maker set to appeal.

A Paris appeals court on Wednesday found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter in the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that killed 228 passengers and crew in France's worst air disaster, ordering both companies to pay the maximum fine of €225,000 each.

The latest reported delays follow the group's decision last year to put off the launch of a freighter version of the A350 due to broader supply chain disruption.

A Paris appeals court will issue a verdict on Thursday on the 2009 crash of an Air France passenger jet after the airline and planemaker Airbus faced trial over corporate manslaughter.

Europe's Airbus has informed some customers of more delays to deliveries of some A350 jets scheduled for later this decade, raising fresh concerns over shipments from a factory acquired in the United States, three industry sources said.

The head of European aerospace group Airbus said he remained optimistic about the framework for connected systems being developed for the FCAS fighter project despite differences with France's Dassault Aviation over the core warplane.

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China agrees to buy 200 Boeing jets with potential expansion to 750 aircraft, signaling easing U.S.-China trade tensions and aviation recovery.

Airbus said it delivered fewer aircraft in the year to April than in the same period a year earlier, underscoring the pressure on the European planemaker to accelerate handovers to airlines.

German satellite maker OHB will consider legal action if EU antitrust regulators approve a planned merger of the satellite businesses of Airbus , Thales and Leonardo , its CEO said on Thursday.

Singapore Airlines' low-cost arm, Scoot, has ordered five Airbus A320neo family aircraft and exercised options for six more, it said on Thursday, as the carrier looks to expand capacity and add new routes.

Tony Fernandes, CEO of Capital A, talks about the AirAsia's latest order deal with France's Airbus, and explains how the addition of A220s will help streamline and expand the airline's network.

AirAsia is ordering 150 A220 jets from Airbus , Airbus commercial aviation CEO Lars Wagner announced at an event in Quebec on Wednesday.

Airbus plans to announce an order on Wednesday for about 150 A220 jets from AirAsia , in a boost for the planemaker's smallest jetliner that has recently lost orders to Brazil's Embraer , two sources told Reuters.

First quarter profit at Airbus has dropped 52 percent, a bigger decline than analysts had expected. The world's largest aircraft maker delivered fewer planes amid an engine supply crunch - remaining locked in a dispute with engine supplier Pratt and Whitney, which it argues is not fulfilling its orders.

Airbus SE (EADSY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Airbus reported a sharp decline in first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, as supply chain disruptions—particularly engine shortages—curbed aircraft deliveries and weighed on profitability. Adjusted operating profit fell 52% year-on-year to 300 million euros, well below analyst expectations of 348 million euros.

Airbus confirmed its aircraft-delivery target for the year, a sign of confidence that it can assemble enough planes despite an engine shortage that forced it to slow production of its best-selling A320 jets.

On an adjusted basis, Airbus' first-quarter operating profits declined by 52% to 300 million euros, from 624 million euros in the same period last year. Airbus had already disclosed that it delivered 114 commercial aircraft in the first quarter, versus 136 aircraft in the same quarter last year.

Europe's Airbus posted a sharp drop in first-quarter core profit on Tuesday, falling well below market expectations as the world's largest planemaker delivered fewer aircraft and was hurt by a weaker U.S. dollar.

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The United States Air Force has no plans to retire its remaining fleet of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers for at least a couple more decades, and the old "BUFFs" as they are known, will be in service until the late 2040s or early 2050s, perhaps even longer. However, even as the Air Force will adopt the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raiders in the coming year, the B-52s won't be the only old workhorses that will remain in the bomber fleet.

Europe must move to build a networked "combat cloud" linking fighters, even if that means the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) ends up operating on different jets, the chief of Airbus' military division Michael Schoellhorn said at a trade show on Tuesday.

The company said the investment is part of its strategy to develop sovereign cybersecurity capabilities in France and boost its position in the wider European cybersecurity sector.

Airbus named Spanish national Amparo Moraleda as the next chair of its board on Tuesday, marking the first time in the European aerospace giant's more than five-decade history that the role will be held by someone who is neither French nor German.

Airbus delivered 60 aircrafts in March, bringing first-quarter deliveries to 114 jets, down 16% from the same point last year, the European planemaker said on Thursday.

Boeing outperformed Airbus in both net orders and deliveries in the first two months of the year, driven by widebody strength. Boeing secured 61% of net orders and 72% of order value, reflecting robust demand and a favorable order mix. Delivery growth at Boeing reached 9% year-over-year, while Airbus deliveries fell 17%, hampered by Pratt & Whitney GTF engine constraints.

The outgoing head of Airbus Helicopters called for deeper European collaboration in defence procurement and warned that fragmenting programmes into national projects would drive costs beyond what countries could afford.

Finnair said on Monday it will renew its European fleet with an order for 18 E195-E2 narrow-body aircraft from Brazilian manufacturer Embraer , moving away from its current provider Airbus.

Airbus is ramping up pressure on U.S. engine maker Pratt & Whitney by pursuing potential damages in an escalating dispute over late engine shipments as it struggles to lift aircraft production, two people familiar with the matter said.

Leasing giant AerCap said on Wednesday that it had agreed to buy 100 Airbus A320neo-family jets.

Atlas Air Worldwide said on Monday it had ordered 20 Airbus A350 freighters, becoming the largest customer for the new European cargo plane.

Airbus maintains a massive 8,800-aircraft backlog, but production ramp-up challenges persist despite strong demand. February orders reached 28 aircraft, higher year-on-year, yet wide-body order momentum remains weak and order value has declined. Deliveries lag, with only 54 units in the first two months—down 17% year-on-year—casting doubt on the 2026 delivery target of 870.

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CNBC's Phil LeBeau and Airbus North America CEO Robin Hayes join ‘Squawk Box' to discuss the spike in jet fuel prices and the impact of the U.S.-Iran war on aviation production.
