FARNBOROUGH, July 15, 2008 (AFP) - European aerospace group EADS and Mubadala Aerospace, part of an investment vehicle owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, signed a deal here Tuesday to make Airbus plane parts in the United Arab Emirates.

FARNBOROUGH, July 13, 2008 (AFP) - European aerospace group EADS is confident of landing the US contract to produce a new generation of aerial fuel tankers by the end of the year, bosses said Sunday.

FARNBOROUGH, July 13, 2008 (AFP) - Airbus boss Thomas Enders on Sunday blasted as a 'show trial' the insider trading probe into managers from its parent firm EADS.

'This is a show trial. This is bad theatre... I think that has to be said very clearly,' he told a seminar in Farnborough, England, ahead of Monday's opening of the airshow here.

FARNBOROUGH, July 13, 2008 (AFP) - Louis Gallois, the head of European aerospace group EADS, insisted Sunday that planemakers should not be unduly panicked by the soaring fuel costs hitting airlines.

'We have not a big flow of cancellations so far,' he told a seminar organised by EADS ahead of the biennial Farnborough International Air Show outside London, which opens Monday.

FARNBOROUGH, July 13, 2008 (AFP) - Marwan Lahoud, head of strategy at the European aerospace group EADS, on Sunday said he did not rule out forging links with companies in the Middle East.

'It would be silly from our side to exclude any of the options of this kind,' he told an EADS seminar at the weekend organised ahead of the Farnborough International Air Show, which opens Monday.

PARIS, July 10, 2008 (AFP) - The head of a German EADS subsidiary, former top Airbus executive Andreas Sperl, was held in French custody for a second day Thursday for questioning over alleged insider trading at the aerospace group, judicial sources said.

WASHINGTON, July 10, 2008 (AFP) - The Pentagon Wednesday reopened a 35-billion-dollar contract to produce a new generation of aerial fuel tankers, acknowledging flaws in the US Air Force's decision to award it to Northrop Grumman and European partner EADS.

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2008 (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday the Pentagon will request revised bids for a controversial 35-billion dollar contract to supply aircraft for air refueling.

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2008 (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday announced a new bidding process for a huge air force refueling tanker contract.

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2008 (AFP) - Senator Richard Shelby said Wednesday that the Pentagon has decided to re-bid a 35 billion dollar Air Force contract for refueling aircraft that had been awarded to Northrop Grumman.