Moreover, purchasing an Air Force One model from Airbus would necessarily expand the company’s employment opportunities here ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Air Force began seeking contractors that will build the next generation of Air Force Ones, scheduled to take to the skies starting in 2017. There is more at stake than ...

and the Airbus A380, which is made in Toulouse, France. The Air Force said those two planes were the only four-engine, wide-body aircraft that could meet the needs of the Air Force One mission.

Yesterday, the Air Force began the process of picking a new Air Force One, by requesting interested ... s updated 747-8 or European Airbus’s new A380. The Air Force hopes to have the first ...

The 747 Air Force One is slated to be replaced ... Last year, the double-decked Airbus A380 unseated the 747 as the world’s largest passenger plane. “The level of security and the amount ...

The prospects of an Airbus Air Force One, however, prompted heated debates over what really is made in America, given that Boeing planes also have a significant number of parts made overseas.

The Airbus A380 has attracted interest from the US Air Force (USAF) as a cargo freighter and as a large VIP transport in the Air Force One class, says an industry source. EADS last summer ...

The Airbus A380 ... trim the fleet. One estimate is that the A380 costs between $26,000 and $29,000 per hour to operate, compared to about $7400 an hour for the Boeing 777. Air France is between ...

Airbus said it considered putting the final assembly plant in a port city such as Hamburg, Germany, where it already has a factory. Air shows ... to finance one-third of the A380's $13 billion ...

There’s nothing quite like seeing an Airbus A380 for the first time ... It’s scheduled to become the next Air Force One. “There has been speculation that we were 10 years too early; I ...