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RSS airbusHewlett Packard Case Study: Airbus UK
White Paper Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with a family of airliners on the market ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus UK improves simulation capabilities, reduces costs with a high-performance technical computing... [03 Jul 2008]
We are now roaming at 30,000 feet...
Comment Dubai-based Emirates launched its first full production mobile service in March this year on an Airbus 340, and it is deploying the system from technology partner AeroMobile on a number of its aircraft. [26 Jun 2008]
Emirates rings up first in-flight mobile call
News The Airbus A340-300 has been equipped with an in-flight mobile system from UK-based company AeroMobile. Emirates airline has launched the world's first commercial in-flight mobile telephone service and will spend $27m to kit out its entire fleet... [25 Mar 2008]
World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Manufacturer Aligns Processes, Cuts Costs, and Satisfies Employees With SAP Travel Management
White Paper Airbus S.A.S.headquartered in Toulouse, France, has an annual travel budget in excess of ¬260 million. The budget covers 180,000 business trips made by Airbus employees every year. With growing business needs - including the decision to build the... [08 Feb 2008]
HP Integrity Solutions: Optimizing Business Outcomes
White Paper Airbus, Chevron, Intrado, Royal London and Taifook share their insights on how they have accelerated their growth, performance and reliability, while reducing costs and risk. [13 Dec 2007]
Budget airline launches in-flight wi-fi
News Low-cost airline JetBlue has equipped one of its Airbus A320 planes with an onboard wireless network and has forged partnerships with Yahoo! and RIM to give passengers access to email and instant messaging functions while in the air. [07 Dec 2007]
Airbus + HP: Taking Innovation to New Heights
White Paper Airbus UK improves simulation capabilities and reduces costs with a high-performance technical computing infrastructure based on Intel Itanium 2-based systems from HP. [02 Nov 2007]
Tech tsar to build government strategy
News Gray is currently MD of Airbus UK. He joined Airbus in 1979. The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has appointed Iain Gilmour Gray as chief executive of the Technology Strategy Board.silicon.com Public Sector [19 Sep 2007]
Airbus Cuts Problem Resolution Time 40% by Performing Business Process Monitoring With SAP Solution Manager
White Paper Airbus, turned to SAP Solution Manager for business process monitoring. The company wanted to reduce number of incidents reported by users, and speed up error detection, escalation, and resolution as well as improve service to users. [14 Sep 2007]
China to get in-flight mobile by 2009
News The OnAir service will be installed across Shenzhen Airlines' full fleet of Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft by mid-2009. Benoit Debains, CEO of OnAir - which is a joint venture between aircraft manufacturer Airbus and airline industry IT body... [03 Sep 2007]
CIMPA Enhances Reliability of Its Financial and Project Management Information System
White Paper An Airbus subsidiary since July 2003, CIMPA is a specialty services company that produces engineering and industrial information systems. The company wanted to build an IT system that integrates all of CIMPA's accounting, financial, and project... [30 Jun 2007]
In-flight mobile gets air-safety green light
News Air France will now be the first airline to install the GSM equipment on an A318 Airbus short-haul aircraft and is due to start offering the service from July. A picocell located on board the Airbus aircraft will pick up mobile phone signals via a... [19 Jun 2007]
Air France to trial in-flight mobile use from July
News Air France will only be installing the system on one A318 Airbus short-haul aircraft - one of the smallest in its fleet. The in-flight mobile technology has been developed by OnAir, a joint venture between Airbus and airline industry IT body Sita. [18 Apr 2007]
Criticality of Data Quality as Exemplified in Two Disasters
White Paper The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and the shooting down of an Iranian Airbus by the USS Vincennes were the result of two serious consumer software and management errors. Both disasters have been reviewed in detail in the literature... [01 Feb 2007]
Mobile calls allowed on half of all airlines by 2008
News Airbus is already planning to replace the out-dated illuminated 'no smoking' signs above passenger seats with 'no mobiles' to prevent their use during take-off and landing. Almost half of all airlines plan to offer in-flight mobile phone... [01 Nov 2006]
