Airbus

Atlas Air signs a firm order for 20 A350F freighters with options for 20 more in March 2026 — its largest order ever — pushing the A350F backlog above 100 aircraft and making Atlas the type's largest customer globally.

Airbus reports Q1 2026 with 114 deliveries (vs. 136), EUR 12.65B revenue (-7%) and adjusted EBIT halved to EUR 300M — held back by Pratt & Whitney engine shortages on the A320 line and administrative delivery disruptions for nearly 20 aircraft destined for Chinese customers. Full-year guidance of ~870 deliveries is reaffirmed.

Airbus's May 2026 monthly report (published June 5) logs 81 commercial deliveries and 379 gross orders for the month, paced by AirAsia X's firm order for 150 A220-300s — the largest single-customer A220 deal ever, at a ~$19B list-price tag and launching a new 160-seat A220 cabin — and a 102-jet order from China Southern Airlines (23 A320neos, 79 A321neos), with subsidiary Xiamen Airlines taking a further 35 A320neo-family jets for a 137-aircraft group total. The orders push the A220 family past 1,000 firm orders and the A320 family past 20,000 lifetime orders.

On June 30, 2026 Scandinavian Airlines announced the largest investment in its history: a commitment for up to 40 Airbus A330-family widebodies, valued at more than $10 billion at list prices, to renew and expand its long-haul fleet. The deal comprises a firm order for 18 A330-900neo aircraft plus additional used A330-300s to be leased or acquired for interim capacity. With only about 14 long-haul jets today, the order could roughly triple SAS's intercontinental fleet, with new-generation deliveries expected from the early 2030s.

Airbus's official first-half figures, reported July 10, 2026, showed 351 commercial aircraft delivered in H1 2026 — 89 of them in June — up about 15% from 306 in H1 2025 and its strongest first half since 2019, as A320-family output recovered from the Pratt & Whitney geared-turbofan engine shortage that dragged on Q1. Airbus logged 887 gross orders (822 net after cancellations) through June and expects to hand over about 80 jets in July, keeping it on track toward reaffirmed full-year guidance of ~870 deliveries — with an internal ambition to exceed 900.

Days after France and Germany agreed on June 8, 2026 to scrap their joint FCAS next-generation fighter over an unresolved Airbus-Dassault workshare deadlock, Airbus Defence and Space and seven other German firms (Autoflug, Diehl Defence, Hensoldt, Liebherr, MBDA Deutschland, MTU Aero Engines and Rohde & Schwarz) signed a 'Team Gen 6' strategic positioning paper at the ILA Berlin air show on June 11. The consortium proposed taking responsibility for the sixth-generation fighter at the core of a realigned Future Combat Air System and urged Berlin to award contracts in full by the second half of 2026.

At the ILA Berlin air show on June 11, 2026 Airbus unveiled the U760 Ravenstorm, an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft, or 'loyal wingman,' designed to fly alongside crewed fighters for air-to-air combat, air-to-ground strike, and electronic-warfare missions. The reveal headlined an expanded Airbus uncrewed-systems portfolio that also included the U145, an autonomous version of its H145 helicopter, positioning Airbus to compete in the fast-growing market for autonomous combat drones paired with next-generation fighters.

On June 10, 2026 Romania's Ministry of Internal Affairs signed a contract for 12 Airbus multirole helicopters — seven H160s and five H145s — funded under the European Union's Security Action for Europe (SAFE) instrument. The H160s go to civil protection, disaster relief, public order and aerial surveillance roles, while the five H145s equip Romania's SMURD emergency-rescue and mountain-rescue services, reinforcing Airbus Helicopters' order intake at the start of the SAFE-driven European defence and public-safety procurement wave.

Airbus closes 2025 with 793 commercial aircraft deliveries, EUR 73.4 billion in revenue, and a record commercial aircraft backlog of 8,754 units, while guiding to around 870 deliveries in 2026.

On November 28, 2025 Airbus and EASA (Emergency Airworthiness Directive 2025-0268-E) ordered urgent precautionary software — and in some cases hardware — changes across roughly 6,000 A320-family aircraft, one of the largest fleet actions in Airbus history. Analysis of an October 30, 2025 JetBlue A320 uncommanded-pitch event found that intense solar radiation could corrupt data in the Elevator Aileron Computer (ELAC) — a 'single event upset' that could trigger uncommanded elevator movement. Most jets needed only a roughly two-hour reversion to earlier, radiation-resilient software, but ~1,000-2,000 required hardware changes, causing significant late-November flight disruption before the fleet action was largely completed.

Airbus delivers the first A321XLR to Iberia, putting its extra-long-range narrow-body into airline service and extending the A320 Family into thinner long-haul routes.

Airbus announces the end of A380 production due to insufficient demand, with the last delivery in 2021.

The A320neo (new engine option) family enters service with Lufthansa, offering 15-20% fuel savings over the previous A320ceo.

EADS is renamed Airbus Group SE, consolidating all operations under the Airbus brand.

The A350 XWB, Airbus's newest wide-body aircraft featuring a composite fuselage and wings, completes its maiden flight.

The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner with a full double-deck configuration, makes its first flight.

Airbus Industrie is reorganized into Airbus SAS, a joint subsidiary of the newly formed European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).

The A320 enters commercial service, becoming the first commercial airliner with digital fly-by-wire flight controls, revolutionizing aircraft design.

The Airbus A300, the world's first twin-engine wide-body aircraft, makes its maiden flight from Toulouse.

Airbus Industrie is established as a consortium (GIE) between Aerospatiale (France) and Deutsche Airbus (Germany) to develop the A300.