If any industry is a barometer of global economic health it is the aircraft and airlines businesses, and Airbus has just released figures suggesting the sky’s the limit.<br /><br /> Although its military arm is flagging, with 6400 jobs in Germany at risk and continuing problems with its A400 military transport leading to Airbus looking for a buyer, commercial planes are doing very well. <br /><br /> However with the A380 it has a trump card, the world’s largest passenger plane which is interesting more and more clients. <br />With its 2014 annual report, the company has broken several records.<br /><br /> Jon Davies, euronews:<br />“Joining me now from Munich is the Airbus CEO Tom Enders. Mr. Enders, earnings are up 60%, are you 100% happy with the report?”<br /><br /> Tom Enders: <br />“I’m 100% happy, it was a pretty good year in 2014, we met most of our operational targets, the commercial momentum was very strong, we achieved major milestones and I think that reflects pretty well in the ebit, in the free cash flow which is very importan
