https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Paris aims to give visitors to the 2024 Paris Olympics a flying start by offering airborne taxis to tournament sites straight from the airport. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190623/paris-aims-to-beat-olympic-traffic-with-flying-taxis Sun, 23 Jun 2019 11:11:08 +0200 paris-aims-to-beat-olympic-traffic-with-flying-taxis President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the EU, vowing to impose tariffs on billions in imports over subsidies to the aviation giant Airbus, suddenly escalating a transatlantic skirmish that is more than a decade old. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190410/us-vows-to-put-tarrifs-on-products-including-gouda-cheese-in-row-over-airbus-subsidies Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:25:22 +0200 us-vows-to-put-tarrifs-on-products-including-gouda-cheese-in-row-over-airbus-subsidies President Trump's decision to pull the US out of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and reimpose a raft of sanctions will hit a number of French and European businesses working in Iran. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180805/french-firms-big-losers-in-trumps-new-iranian-sanctions-game Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:35:04 +0200 french-firms-big-losers-in-trumps-new-iranian-sanctions-game Ukraine on Saturday signed a contract with Airbus to buy 55 of its civil helicopters for 555 million euros in the biggest-ever deal reached between the two countries. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180715/ukraine-inks-deal-with-airbus-to-buy-55-helicopters Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:40:03 +0200 ukraine-inks-deal-with-airbus-to-buy-55-helicopters Soon when you fly in an Airbus jet and you fancy a bit of shut-eye, all you will need do is make your way down to the cargo hold. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180411/airbus-teams-up-with-french-firm-to-offer-sleeping-berths-down-in-cargo-hold Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:41:35 +0200 airbus-teams-up-with-french-firm-to-offer-sleeping-berths-down-in-cargo-hold Airbus CEO Tom Enders warned on Friday that the aircraft manufacturer could face "significant penalties" relating to ongoing corruption probes including one into the sale of fighter jets to Austria. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171007/airbus-chief-warns-of-significant-penalties-from-bribery-probes Sat, 07 Oct 2017 14:29:22 +0200 airbus-chief-warns-of-significant-penalties-from-bribery-probes Airbus said Wednesday it has delivered the first A380 superjumbo to Dubai's Emirates airline, equipped with a Rolls Royce-made engine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161229/frances-airbus-delivers-first-a380-to-emirates Thu, 29 Dec 2016 12:14:15 +0100 frances-airbus-delivers-first-a380-to-emirates Airbus said Tuesday it was postponing for a year the planned delivery of 12 A380 superjumbos to Dubai's Emirates airline, without offering reasons for the delay. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161228/frances-airbus-postpones-delivery-of-a380s-to-emirates Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:15:47 +0100 frances-airbus-postpones-delivery-of-a380s-to-emirates Airbus announced Tuesday it was cutting more than 1,100 jobs in Europe and closing one of its sites in the Paris region as part of an ongoing restructuring programme. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161129/airbus-to-slash-hundreds-of-jobs-in-france Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:45:44 +0100 airbus-to-slash-hundreds-of-jobs-in-france Iran will sign a contract this week to buy 114 Airbus planes from France, during a visit to Paris by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Tehran's transport minister said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160124/iran-to-buy-114-airbus-planes-this-week-minister Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:57:50 +0100 iran-to-buy-114-airbus-planes-this-week-minister Airbus said on Wednesday that its A400M would take part in the flying display at the Paris airshow next week, just over a month after one of the planes fatally crashed in Spain after a massive engine failure. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150610/airbus-a400m-to-fly-in-paris-despite-spain-crash Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:36:32 +0200 airbus-a400m-to-fly-in-paris-despite-spain-crash France needs to learn to love companies in the way the UK and the US does. That's the view of Fabrice Brégier, the CEO of France-based aviation giant Airbus, who spoke to The Local and other media on Thursday. Brégier says he is a Frenchman, but "no longer thinks like one". https://www.thelocal.fr/20140320/france-needs-to-love-its-companies Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:25:00 +0100 france-needs-to-love-its-companies France sold €451 million Airbus Group stock, but is still holding about an 11 percent stake in the aircraft and defence corporation. But what prompted the sell off? https://www.thelocal.fr/20140116/airbus-sale-divest-aircraft-eads-451million Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:13:00 +0100 airbus-sale-divest-aircraft-eads-451million Some 1,000 jobs are set to be lost in France, after European aerospace giant and the maker of Airbus aircraft, EADS announced on Monday that it would be cutting some 5,800 European posts from its defence and space division. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131209/airbus-maker-eads-set-to-cut-1000-french-jobs Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:44:00 +0100 airbus-maker-eads-set-to-cut-1000-french-jobs Airbus on Saturday urged the German government to pay out a promised final loan instalment of 600 million euros ($830 million) for the construction of the A350, after the aircraft manufacturer said it had created German jobs in return. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131027/airbus-exec-urges-germany-to-pay-up-e600m-loan Sun, 27 Oct 2013 11:57:00 +0100 airbus-exec-urges-germany-to-pay-up-e600m-loan A senior Airbus executive hit out at rival Boeing's troubled Dreamliner on Friday, saying the aircraft was clearly not reliable and suggested it was rushed to market. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130720/airbus-exec-says-boeing-dreamliner-not-reliable Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:03:51 +0200 airbus-exec-says-boeing-dreamliner-not-reliable French airline company Air France confirmed on Wednesday a multi-billion euro order of Airbus's new A350 planes. The planes are not yet in service and only recently carried out a test flight (see video). https://www.thelocal.fr/20130619/air-france-places-billion-dollar-order-of-a350-planes Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:22:00 +0200 air-france-places-billion-dollar-order-of-a350-planes The world's biggest air show takes to the skies on Monday, with a battle between Boeing and Airbus for orders in the lucrative market for wide-body planes set to dominate the Paris event. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130617/boeing-and-airbus-face-battle-in-skies-over-paris Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:44:27 +0200 boeing-and-airbus-face-battle-in-skies-over-paris France-based aerospace company Airbus launched its new aircraft, the A350, on Friday morning (see video below) The much-anticipated maiden flight took place at 10am French time, from the south-western city of Toulouse. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130614/new-airbus-a350-set-to-take-off-in-toulouse Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:25:00 +0200 new-airbus-a350-set-to-take-off-in-toulouse Europe's Airbus has won a record order worth €18.4 billion from Indonesia's Lion Air for 234 medium-haul A320 jets, the French presidency announced on Monday. The deal will be worth up to 5,000 jobs over the coming years, according to the Elysée. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130318/record-airbus-deal-to-create-5000-jobs-in-france Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:03:00 +0100 record-airbus-deal-to-create-5000-jobs-in-france