As Airbus's new CEO, Fabrice Bregier, and COO, Gunter Butschek, make major changes to the aircraft manufacturer's organization, the company's position within the EADS group has been strengthened. Two Airbus executives, Butschek and COO for Customers John Leahy, have been added to EADS's executive board, which now has 13 members including CEO Tom Enders.

U.S. airlines will continue to drop 50-seat regional jets from their operations; that is a certainty. Higher fuel costs have made them unprofitable on many routes, and the clauses in pilot union contracts that severely restricted the major carriers from outsourcing the flying of larger RJs have largely evaporated. Delta Air Lines has vowed to shed another 200 of them by 2015; American Eagle seems poised for a purging.

Schoenefeld is directly adjacent to Berlin Brandenburg Airport

The Irish commercial aircraft MRO industry is positioning itself for growth, as Ireland's economy slowly recovers from its own financial crisis and the global economy falters

Reconfiguring an aircraft part can cut the number of components from 300 to 10.

Agreement with WSI helped in landing customers for atmospheric hazard detection and avoidance technology.

Germany's aerospace industry has been growing, driven by civil air transport demand. But it is facing difficult changes as its defense-related business contracts.

Business in China has caused Airbus executives some serious headaches lately, with political wrangling over the European Union Emissions Trading System (ETS) and the crisis at Hong Kong Airlines threatening orders. But now it appears the tide has turned.