This is as many hires as in 2022 and excellent news for the aeronautical ecosystem. Airbus plans to hire 13,000 employees in 2023, including 7,000 job creations, announced Thursday Thierry Baril, the HRD of the aeronautical group. Two-thirds of these hires will take place in the four main countries where the aircraft manufacturer operates: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain.In 2022, Airbus has already reached "an historic record" of recruitments with the arrival of 7,000 additional employees and 6,000...
It was an unusual flight for Richard Lenz, Lufthansa's Chief Training Captain A380, and Mattias Sode, the airline's A380 Technical Captain, as well as two Lufthansa technicians. And one that the crew certainly did not expect in 2020: On December 2, they brought the first Airbus A380 from storage in Spain back to Frankfurt with the D-AIMK "Düsseldorf" - so that the machine could return to scheduled service in the summer can go. At least three A380s are required to...
Status: 01/11/2023 09:40 a.m Aerospace group Airbus remains the world's largest aircraft manufacturer for the fourth year in a row. With 661 machines delivered, the Europeans landed well ahead of their US competitor Boeing in 2022. The Franco-German Airbus group delivered 661 aircraft last year, which corresponds to an increase of eight percent compared to the previous year. This put Airbus once again in first place in the ranking of the largest aircraft manufacturers. Because the US competitor Boeing was...
aircraft construction Airbus remains well ahead of Boeing in 2022 Airbus received orders for 1,078 commercial aircraft last year. photo © Peter Kneffel/dpa The two major aircraft manufacturers received numerous new orders last year. In terms of deliveries, Airbus was ahead of Boeing - but was below its own forecasts. The demand for new aircraft is booming, but the manufacturers Airbus and Boeing cannot keep up because of tight supply chains. Last year, the European Airbus group, with 661 jets...
If the aviation sector has not yet returned to its level before the Covid-19 crisis, on the side of the aircraft manufacturers, it is in great shape. Airbus announced on Tuesday that it delivered 661 aircraft last year, 8% more than in 2021, and recorded 820 net orders. If these results are positive, we are however far from the 720 deliveries initially expected, supply problems being one of the difficulties in achieving these objectives. However, it is upon delivery that...
A whopping $1.4 billion. According to the pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck, this is how much it cost a hacker attack that rendered around 40,000 computers in the company unusable in 2017. Damage of this magnitude is not uncommon after a cyber attack. A number of companies have already had to pay several hundred million euros because of cyber attacks. You can only insure a small part of it. Merck was lucky, the group was fully secured with an old policy. But...
While the contours of the government's pension reform are taking shape, the socialist president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, denounced, in an interview with AFP, an "unfair" reform.“There is no need to raise the retirement age. I am in favor of reworking the question of long careers and arduous work, it is not yet sufficiently taken into account. There is a real inequality in life expectancy between a worker and a manager. Retirement must be maintained at 62. The...
Of Jens Flottau, FrankfurtShortly before the happy ending there was a little more drama. When towing across the apron, the tractor driver had misjudged the distances and steered the first of 18 brand-new Airbuses A330 with the wing tip against the corner of a hangar at Toulouse airport. A repair was due before the first scheduled flight. As it soon turned out, everything was not so wild. The holiday airline Condor was able to take over the machine with a...
The European space agency Esa was only able to launch the newly developed rocket in mid-July Vega-C celebrate. The launch vehicle's little sister Ariane successfully placed several research satellites in earth orbit, and ESA director Daniel Neuenschwander wanted to herald a "new era of European launch solutions that Ariane 6 should be added", as he said. Seven at least Vega-Flights were already booked at the time.This project has now been abruptly interrupted. Ironically, on the first commercial mission of the...
India has almost 1.4 billion inhabitants. The country has a middle class of tens of millions who can afford air travel and a diaspora of around 20 million Indians abroad, many of whom fly in regularly to visit. India sits halfway between Europe and Southeast Asia, between the Middle East and Central Asia - all of which are the perfect ingredients for a massive transfer hub for one of the world's largest airlines.Rarely, however, has there been such a large...
