French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) grounded all planes belonging to Caribbean airline Air Antilles after suspending its operating license, following significant safety concerns raised during a recent regulatory audit. www.lesechos.fr/industrie-se...

European airlines will deliver the highest profits in 2025 and 2026, overtaking for the first time in more than a decade their Northamerican peers, predicts IATA. But airlines from the Middle East will be strongest in terms of margins and profit per passenger. bit.ly/48ws8Va

Sudden leadership change at Qatar Airways. www.flightglobal.com/airlines/qat...

Airbus delivered only 72 aircraft in November, even a little less than expected. So it has to deliver 133 planes in December to reach the lowered delivery target of around 790 this year.

Airbus lowers its delivery target for this year from around 820 aircraft to around 790 after quality problems with fuselage panels delivered by one supplier for the A320 became public Monday.

Airbus asks A320-operators to implement a software and/or hardware protection immediately after a recent event with a A320-family-aircraft revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.

With the decision to increase ESA budget for the three coming years to €22.1 billion member countries follow the recommendations of ESA director general Josef Aschbacher who warned that Europe can't afford to fall behind even more in the global space race. bit.ly/4isCMzB

European Space Agency's ministerial council in Bremen this week has to lead the way for the future and make sure that Europe's space sector does not lag behind, while competition is heating uo. It must also lay the foundations for a common defence strategy. 🛰️🚀🛰️ bit.ly/4oYfWSD

German space group OHB works together with Dassault Aviation from France on a project for Vortex, a reusable spaceplane. They discussed the partnership at Paris Air Show in June, OHB CEO Marco Fuchs told me. bit.ly/4pn4z6F

Why Air France sticks to its First Class La Première and what different kind of clients it attracts. bit.ly/4gOWNzb

French president Macron proposes to nominate his former Prime Minister Castex as CEO of rail operator SNCF.

With only 434 this year till end of August, Airbus has to deliver 386 to reach its goal of 820 deliveries in 2025, more than 96 aircraft per month. Experts consider the chance the planemaker can achieve that only 5%. bit.ly/3VxxfNd

European planemaker Airbus reports 67 deliveries for July, 10 less than July last year. Despite a big number of gliders, it still sticks to its plan to deliver around 820 aircraft this year. So far it delivered 373 in 2025.

#Airbus has 60 gliders - planes without engines - at the moment due to persistent engine supply issues on the A320 program, CEO Faury told reporters. Majority of it lack CFM engines, but some also Pratt & Whitney ones. Airbus only had more gliders in 2018 when there were 100 at this time of the year

The German government considers taking a stake in French-German tank maker #KNDS as the German owner families Bode and Braunbehrens want to withdraw from the company. bit.ly/3ItxVQH

French president Emmanuel Macron says #France will increase military spending till 2027 to € 64 billion, doubling it in comparison to 2017. He announced € 3,5 billion extra spending for 2026 and € 3 billion for 2027 the evening before Bastille Day. bit.ly/44MeZ7c

The influential aerospace industry association #Gifas has elected Safran CEO Olivier Andriès as new president. It was chaired from 2011 till now by Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury whose mandate ended.

MTU CEO Lars Wagner will join Airbus already in November this year before succeeding Christian Scherer as CEO of the Commercial Aircraft division on 1 January 2026.

Crossborder consolidation in the European banking sector seems unlikely at the moment, says #BNPParibas CFO Lars Machenil. He is focusing on targeted acquisitions which strengthen existing activities in BNP's key markets and expects impact of the US trade policy to be balanced. bit.ly/44yQla6

Increasing #polarisation is one of the three major risks for our society besides climate change and digitalisation, judges Thierry Léger, the CEO of French reinsurer Scor. Very interesting interview in @lesechosfr.bsky.social. bit.ly/4knB1Ty

Air France wants to increase its stake in SAS from 19,9% to 60,5%, buying the stakes from Castlelake and Lind Invest, aiming to close the transaction in the second half of 2026.

French Civil Aviation Authority DGAC asks airlines to reduce flights at French airports Friday significantly because air controllers are striking: Nice by 50%, Parisian airports by 40%, Lyon, Marseille and airports at Corsica by 30%.

During the summer, Air France opens a restaurant at the rooftop of the famous Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette where you can try the menu which is served in its business class without taking the plane.

After years of cash outflows the #A400M program will be cash neutral for the first time 2025 and will start to be cash positive 2026, says #Airbus CFO Thomas Toepfer. Whether Airbus, Thales and Leonardo will tie-up their satellite business should be decided before the end of the year. bit.ly/4luwcJ1

Airline tickets in France could become more expensive as the government is considering adding new taxes on domestic flights, reports @lesechosfr.bsky.social . bit.ly/4epIv71

French air traffic controllers threaten with a strike for July 3 and 4, some of the days a lot of French start their summer holidays. They complain about cntrol measures, salaries and hiring schemes.

Air France-KLM and French airport operator Groupe ADP announce a partnership which aims to strengthen the Parisian airport CDG against the growing concurrence of other hubs. Among other things they want to launch a special stopover program - a bit like Changi and Dubai.

Embraer wants to expand its defence business and ramp up production of the KC-390. Portugal bought a sixth KC-390 at Paris Air Show and signed an option to acquire up to 10 additional aircraft. #PAS25 bit.ly/3G2EyZh

Geopolitical tensions and the Air India crash overshadowed the first day of the Paris Air Show which is expected to be much calmer in term of orders despite Airbus signing several deals. #PAS25 bit.ly/4e67uvT

Final preparations before the start of the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget… #PAS25

Getting ready for the Paris Air Show aboard Embraer’s KC-390. Defence and space definitively play a bigger role at this edition of Le Bourget. #PAS25

Airbus Defence & Space is preparing for higher demand by developing ramp-up scenarios, something the company knows well from its commercial planemaking unit, says Airbus defence chief Michael Schoellhorn. "It's also a question to set the course for the future." bit.ly/3GhzYpE

Delta Airlines earnings call today was apparently pretty clear that transatlantic air travel bookings are taking a nosedive, alongside everything else.

Boeing at far greater risk of tariff impacts than Airbus Subscripton Required By Scott Hamilton April 7, 2025, © Leeham News: Tariffs against the rest of the world announced by US President Donald Trump last week threaten retaliatory tariffs against Boeing at a far greater level than Airbus faces,…

Delays in plane deliveries and shortages of spare parts could affect the profitability of airlines, warns Rafale Schvartzman, IATA Regional Vice President Europe. Aging fleets mean higher maintenance and fuel costs; bit.ly/4jrhUbf

Businesses around the globe faced up to a future of higher prices, trade turmoil and reduced access to the world's largest market after US President Trump confirmed their worst fears by instituting broad tariffs worldwide reut.rs/3E8E6Yz

The world's 500 richest people saw their combined wealth fall by a combined $208 billion, the most since Covid, as tariffs sent markets into a tailspin

French president Emmanuel Macrons asks French companies to stop their investments in the US till things have been clarified with the Trump administration. www.lesechos.fr/economie-fra...

Interview worth reading in Le Monde on what's at stake in the debate about the Le Pen sentence. "Attacking the legal institutions is not only violating the judges but also the foundations of our democracy", says the first president of the French cour de cassation. bit.ly/43vNTCj

Very interesting interview: "Never before in history somebody was able to weigh such as Elon Musk on an election", David Colon, associate professor Science Po, tells Les Echos. "Social networks have become weapons of mass manipulation." www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats...

#Europa Eine Philippika von Florian Illies. Man liest den Text mit angehaltenem Atem. www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

US tells French companies to comply with Donald Trump’s anti-diversity order https://www.ft.com/content/02ed56af-7595-4cb3-a138-f1b703ffde84

View from an A321 for this #WingFriday ✈️ Do you recognize the runway?

What Trump's tariffs mean for Stellantis, French suppliers and Japanese carmakers. www.boersen-zeitung.de/unternehmen-...

Good night, Beluga! Good night, Opti-1!

Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events

Happy #WingFriday and most of all bon courage to all affected by the closure of Heathrow! ✈️

Britain's Heathrow Airport said it would be closed all of Friday after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out power, disrupting flight schedules around the world reut.rs/4kLW6IQ

Today I had the opportunity to visit together with colleagues from @AJPAE the French air accident investigation agency @BEA and meet its director Pierre-Yves Huerre. Absolutely fascinating!

The massive new EU defense spending plan is good news for the European defense sector. But companies in France and Italy are adopting a wait-and-see approach, waiting for definite orders, while the necessary production increase can't be done overnight. www.boersen-zeitung.de/meinung-anal...