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American Airlines on Thursday unveiled its airplane of the future , a new model Airbus A321XLR, heavy on premium seats and destined to fly both transcontinental and transatlantic routes, as the carrier toddles between its domestic focus and its international hopes.

Airbus has agreed a 50 million euros ($58 million) contract to incorporate artificial intelligence developed by the French Ministerial Agency for Defence AI (AMIAD) into weapons and information systems used by the French armed forces.

An Air India investigation into why one of its Airbus planes conducted eight commercial flights without an airworthiness permit found "systemic failures", a company document showed, putting the lives of hundreds of passengers at risk.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury conceded likely defeat in the annual order race against Boeing on Wednesday, saying it was possible Boeing would win for the first time in six years, helped by settlements over U.S. tariff disputes.

Airbus has secured Chinese agreement to go ahead with the delivery of 120 previously ordered jets, the company said, but the deal signed in Beijing leaves the European planemaker still waiting for progress on a new order for hundreds of jets.

The head of the global airlines body IATA on Tuesday said that there was less confidence in Airbus meeting aircraft delivery targets, while Boeing's performance has improved, amid ongoing supply chain issues.

This week, Airbus got a brutal reminder that even the world's most-delivered jet - the A320 - isn't immune to shocks as disparate as solar flares and flawed metal.