Airbus’s Hamburg facility has taken delivery of the first A350 freighter section 19, the aerostructure which is located aft of the main fuselage barrel and interfaces with the empennage.

However, the deal depends on Airbus taking over the loss-making Europe-focused activities, including a US plant that makes a central fuselage section for the Airbus A350. In October, Reuters ...

Air France-KLM is substituting two A350 passenger jets for freighter aircraft on its Airbus orderbook because it can get the passenger planes sooner.