Newly-released accounts for Spirit AeroSystems' factory in Belfast, Northern Ireland, show the business in a worsening ...

The failure to find a third‑party buyer means Airbus will also take over the mid‑fuselage programme along with the A220 wing ...

Losses at aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems ’ Belfast business topped €430 million last year, new figures show. The ...

Boeing's acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems was announced months after an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 had an explosive decompression due to a door plug that blew out. It was later found that the ...

Airbus' move to take control of the core activities at four Spirit plants, including in Belfast where the fuselage supplier employs around 3,600 people, was part of Boeing's , opens new tab $4.7 ...

Belfast aerospace giant Spirit AeroSystems has grown its four-year losses to more than $1bn. Losses have also increased by 50% in the last 12 months – growing to $339m (£255m). It’s also ...

In Belfast, Spirit manufactures fuselages for Bombardier Global and Challenger business jets, and empennages for Globals, alongside wings for the Airbus A220s.

Spirit's wider global business is being carved up between Boeing and Airbus US plane manufacturer Boeing looks set to take over part of Spirit's Belfast operation as no other buyer has yet been ...

CEO Eric Martel also told analysts that repurchasing Spirit AeroSystems' Belfast plant — where Spirit performs key work for Bombardier on several programs — is a possibility in light of Boeing ...

Spirit AeroSystems is Northern Ireland's most significant manufacturing employer, with about 3,500 staff. In April, Airbus finalised a deal to take over another part of the Spirit operation in ...