February 9, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Airbus":
National: 15 Dec 11
The base of a crane weighing a massive 146 tonnes fell off the back of a truck in Hamburg on Thursday. The accident caused considerable damage to the road and destroying the vehicle escorting it, but no-one was injured.
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National: 21 Nov 11
The German government was embarrassed this weekend following revelations that an Iranian airline bypassed trade sanctions to acquire an aeroplane formerly used by Chancellors Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel.
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National: 27 Oct 11
A Lufthansa plane was forced to land at Frankfurt Airport ahead of schedule on Wednesday evening after the crew noticed a strange smell in the cabin, an airline spokesman confirmed. It was the third such incident for the airline in a week.
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National: 21 Oct 11
Germany’s biggest airport was expanded by a runway on Friday, when Chancellor Angela Merkel ceremonially landed in Frankfurt on it in a government plane.
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Politics: 6 Sep 11
A Tuesday German court ruling ordered the partial re-trial of Karlheinz Schreiber, a Canadian-German arms dealer who was a key player in a party funding scandal that helped propel Chancellor Angela Merkel to power.
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National: 29 Aug 11
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reportedly unhappy with her new Airbus A340 used for official visits. She now wants an older plane, which the government inherited from communist East Germany, to be given a new lease of life.
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National: 1 Aug 11
Germany and France are reportedly considering a military ship-building alliance, an "EADS of the Seas," that could resemble their current arrangement for military aircraft.
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Science & Technology: 15 Jul 11
Lufthansa is testing biosynthetic fuels on Airbus A321 flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt and, if the trial is successful, hopes to expand use of the fuel across its fleet.
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Politics: 28 Jun 11
Germany and China held their first joint cabinet meeting Tuesday and inked more than $15 billion in business deals but Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warned Europe against interfering in its internal affairs over human rights.
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Science & Technology: 15 Apr 11
A Hamburg-based company is producing giant kites to help power sea vessels and save fuel, hoping to harness not just the wind but a new will for energy efficiency.
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Science & Technology: 4 Apr 11
Bodies of people killed in the Air France crash near Brazil in 2009 have been found, French officials said Monday. Their search for the wreckage and victims – among them 28 Germans – was aided by a robot from a Kiel institute.
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Business & Money: 17 Mar 11
Leading German airline Lufthansa on Thursday forecast improved operating profit and sales for this year and next, though 2011 is expected to be tough on the industry. The airline also announced the expansion and modernisation of its fleet.
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National: 23 Feb 11
Germany said Wednesday that the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had lost all legitimacy, as evidence grew of a "bloodbath" in the North African country.
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Business & Money: 23 Feb 11
Germany would prefer a private solution to state intervention if automaker Daimler wants to sell part of its stake in the European aerospace and defence group EADS, Economy Minister Rainer Brüderle said Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 17 Feb 11
Automaker Daimler wants to sell half of its remaining 15 percent stake in the aerospace and defence group EADS to the German government, the Financial Times Deutschland said Thursday.
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Business & Money: 16 Feb 11
German luxury carmaker Daimler raced back to profit last year after massive 2009 losses, and gave an upbeat outlook for 2011 on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 10 Feb 11
French judges have charged the German auto giant Daimler in an insider trading scandal centring on the European defence group EADS, a judicial official said Thursday.
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Business & Money: 3 Jan 11
German national air carrier Lufthansa will create 4,000 jobs in the country in 2011, its new boss Christoph Franz said on Monday.
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Business & Money: 16 Nov 10
German flag carrier Lufthansa will receive a new Airbus A380 on Tuesday, just one day after a concern with one of the super jumbo jets forced the airline to unload some 400 passengers headed from Frankfurt to Tokyo.
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Business & Money: 18 Oct 10
Germany’s largest airline Lufthansa plans to expand its 2010-2011 winter offerings to include more seats and new destinations, the company said on Monday.
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Business & Money: 12 Jul 10
European aerospace giant Airbus has cut its prices in a bid to win a fight with US rival Boeing for a $40-billion US Air Force tanker contract, a German business daily reported on Monday.
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Sport: 9 Jul 10
Germany's squad have been hit by a flu virus and have worries over the fitness of star striker Miroslav Klose ahead of Saturday's World Cup third place play-off against
Uruguay.
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National: 7 Jul 10
Germany’s armed forces are planning deep cuts to their military hardware to save nearly €10 billion amid intense pressure from the government to rein in spending, the media reported Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 16 Jun 10
Lufthansa, Europe's biggest airline by passenger numbers, said Wednesday it would raise the price of most flights but partially offset the increase by lowering fuel surcharges.
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National: 8 Jun 10
The Berlin Air Show welcomed the world's leading aerospace firms to the German capital on Tuesday, with Airbus's A380 superjumbo set to be one of the stars.
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Sport: 7 Jun 10
Germany was among the latest national teams to arrive in South Africa on Monday for the first World Cup staged on the continent.
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Science & Technology: 4 Jun 10
European aerospace firm EADS will present the world’s first airplane that runs only on algae fuel next week at the ILA Berlin Air Show, the company’s technical director said on Friday.
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National: 25 May 10
The German Defence Ministry on Tuesday slammed "serious defects" in the Tiger attack helicopter that were keeping them from being deployed in combat operations in Afghanistan.
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National: 19 May 10
German airline Lufthansa on Wednesday celebrated the handover of its first “superjumbo” A380 jetliner, which manufacture Airbus hopes will revolutionise long-distance air travel.
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National: 13 May 10
At least one German was among the 103 people killed when a passenger plane crashed in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, authorities announced late Wednesday.
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National: 5 May 10
A court in Augsburg on Wednesday sentenced Karlheinz Schreiber, an arms dealer who was a key player in a party funding scandal that helped propel Chancellor Angela Merkel to power, to eight years in prison.
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National: 20 Apr 10
German authorities have extended the closure of the country's air space to 2 am Wednesday due to the giant plume of volcanic ash, though some airlines continued to operate flights with special permission.
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National: 20 Apr 10
Two comprehensive test flights by aircraft-maker Airbus have shown no damage to aircraft or pilot's visibility, a company spokesman said Tuesday, suggesting the danger in volcanic ash-affected European airspace is lower than thought.
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National: 18 Apr 10
Germany's two largest airlines have questioned the sense of the flight ban - now extended until 8 pm on Sunday as a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland continues to occupy European air space.
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National: 4 Apr 10
The Good Friday bloodshed in Afghanistan prompted German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to break a long-standing political taboo on Sunday and call the conflict a “war.”
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Business & Money: 23 Mar 10
US aerospace giant Boeing lashed out Monday at Germany's plans for a multibillion-euro loan to develop Airbus's A350 airliner, ahead of a WTO ruling on EU aid to its European arch-rival.
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National: 21 Mar 10
The takeoff of a Munich flight to Tokyo was aborted after two dozen Japanese tourists on board fell ill with violent stomach cramps, the police said on Sunday.
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Business & Money: 21 Mar 10
The German government has signaled a willingness to help finance production of the Airbus A350 with loans totalling more than €1 billion, Die Welt reported Sunday. Berlin hopes the funds will help secure manufacturing sites in Germany.
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Business & Money: 9 Mar 10
The German head of the European plane maker Airbus on Tuesday accused the US government of partiality in its tender for military tankers after Airbus and US partner Northrop Grumman threw in the towel.
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Business & Money: 6 Mar 10
After an arduous negotiation process in Berlin, Germany and six other European nations finally struck a deal with EADS late on Friday for completing the development of the Airbus A400M military transport plane.
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Business & Money: 22 Jan 10
Talks in Berlin on the troubled Airbus A400M military transport plane ended without a breakthrough on Friday but the parties still aim to reach an agreement by January 31, Germany said.
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Business & Money: 19 Jan 10
The head of plane maker Airbus said he expected 2010 to be a very difficult year, with currency fluctuations knocking €1 billion off company results.
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National: 18 Jan 10
Arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber went on trial in Augsburg on Monday for tax evasion, fraud and bribery. Extradited from Canada, he is a key figure in slush fund scandal involving Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats.
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Business & Money: 5 Jan 10
The German head of European plane maker Airbus is preparing to ditch its A400M military transport project which is bogged down in talks with clients, the Financial Times Deutschland reported on Tuesday.
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National: 27 Dec 09
A false alarm over a suspicious suitcase forced a German airliner bound for Detroit to land in Iceland, national flag carrier Lufthansa said Sunday.
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National: 28 Nov 09
German families who lost relatives in a plane crash off Brazil will sue Air France, aircraft-maker Airbus and the French aviation authorities for negligence, lawyers said Friday.
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National: 3 Aug 09
He has brought shame to politicians on both sides of the Atlantic and now German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber is back in Germany to face charges of tax-evasion, fraud and corruption.
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National: 25 Jul 09
A new enquiry has concluded that a computer error may have been to blame for a near-disaster on the runway at Hamburg Airport on March 1, 2008.
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National: 13 Jun 09
The 28 Germans who died when an Air France jet crashed in the Atlantic were remembered at a memorial service in Düsseldorf Saturday morning.
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National: 4 Jun 09
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday said 28 German residents – two more than previously thought – died in the ill-fated Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic this week.
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National: 2 Jun 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she was "stunned" by the disappearance of an Air France aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board including 26 Germans.
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National: 10 May 09
Passengers on a plane were hurled from their seats and 14 people injured when their flight from Munich to Lisbon hit a patch of severe turbulence over the Alps on Saturday evening.
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National: 2 Apr 09
Airplane manufacturer Airbus has announced that it is the lastest in a string of German companies to have spied on its own employees.
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National: 2 Apr 09
The German government said Thursday it would nominate Rüdiger Grube as head of the national rail operator Deutsche Bahn after its former boss resigned amid a staff spy scandal.
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Business & Money: 10 Mar 09
The Franco-German aerospace group EADS soared back into the black and exceeded expectations on Tuesday by posting a 2008 net profit of €1.572 billion ($1.987 billion).
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Business & Money: 27 Jan 09
Germany is considering financial aid for clients of aerospace giant Airbus struggling to raise capital from banks, a junior minister told AFP on Tuesday.
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Society: 23 Jan 09
Authorities have known for some time that old World War II munitions lie underneath the runways at Berlin’s Tegel airport, but now the airport plans to dig them up in early 2009, daily Berliner Morgenpost reported on Friday.
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Business & Money: 12 Jan 09
The Airbus A400 military transport plane is too heavy and does not deliver on performance, the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper reported on Monday.
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Business & Money: 26 Nov 08
German flag carrier Lufthansa will found its own Italian airline early next year, even as it courts Italy's bankrupt Alitalia. The new carrier will have its hub in Milan and fly to several major European cities.
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Business & Money: 20 Nov 08
Staff at three Airbus plants in Germany staged wildcat strikes Thursday over plans by the European jet maker to spin off the factories into a new subsidiary.
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National: 17 Nov 08
Four German soldiers were injured on Monday in an insurgent attack as another soldier injured on Sunday was being transported back to the country for treatment.
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National: 8 Sep 08
German President Horst Köhler was forced to take an airline flight home from the Special Olympics in Beijing after the presidential plane broke down on Monday morning.
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Business & Money: 28 Jul 08
The Gulf airline Emirates has signed a letter of intent to buy 60 more Airbus planes, its chief executive Sheikh Ahmed ibn Said al-Maktoum said on Monday in Hamburg.
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National: 28 Jul 08
Made in Germany? Chinese firms could soon be flocking to a remote airport in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to assemble their goods, reports Brett Neely.
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National: 27 Jul 08
Sri Lankan police on Sunday detained a German man on suspicion that he used false documents to secure a job as a top pilot for Sri Lanka's national carrier, a spokesman said.
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Business & Money: 14 Jul 08
The financial director of aerospace giant EADS, Hans-Peter Ring, has been questioned as a witness in connection with a French probe into alleged insider trading in the group's shares, a German press report said Monday.
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Business & Money: 9 Jul 08
A former top Airbus executive and current head of a German EADS plant, Andreas Sperl, was held for questioning in France on Wednesday for alleged insider trading.
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Business & Money: 3 Jul 08
The German former chief executive of Airbus, Gustav Humbert, was charged Wednesday with insider trading at the planemaker's parent company EADS, a legal source said.
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Business & Money: 2 Jul 08
The former German chief executive of airplane maker Airbus, Gustav Humbert, is reportedly in French custody for questioning over alleged insider trading and will go before a judge Wednesday to face possible charges.
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Science & Technology: 27 May 08
Berlin’s ILA aerospace trade show taxied into position on Tuesday, with a record number of exhibitors and visitors expected to head to the city’s Schönefeld airport this week.
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National: 6 May 08
The German military’s current airport home in Berlin may be closing, but the Luftwaffe still lacks concrete plans for a move to a new air hub currently under construction, daily newspaper Tagesspiegel reported on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 27 Mar 08
Talks by EADS to sell three German plants to the private equity firm Cerberus and OHB Technology's MT Aerospace unit have collapsed, a statement by its aircraft manufacturing unit Airbus said on Thursday.
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Society: 25 Mar 08
Two Lufthansa flights have made emergency landings in Poland due to unruly passengers, both apparently drunk, police said.
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Business & Money: 11 Mar 08
European aircraft manufacturer EADS has reported decreasing sales and profits for 2007, but shareholders will get additional dividends in return for their loyalty.
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National: 8 Mar 08
Passengers on the Lufthansa flight that narrowly avoided crashing at the Hamburg airport last week have heavily criticized how the airline has handled the incident, a German newspaper reported.
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National: 3 Mar 08
A Lufthansa airliner narrowly avoided a deadly catastrophe while trying to land in Hamburg during heavy winds over the weekend.
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Society: 2 Mar 08
European aeronautics giant EADS has broken into the US defense market with a new multi-billion dollar contract, but US officials are furious that American rival Boeing was snubbed.
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