Aviation

Bloomberg Boeing Co told US regulators that it didn’t see the need to undertake a potentially costly fix for a wiring issue on the company’s grounded 737 Max, according to two people familiar with the briefing. The planemaker found in an audit last year of the 737 Max that wires were bundled improperly in a way that could trigger a ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co will resume production of the 737 Max before the best-selling plane is allowed back in the air as the company attempts to recover from one of the worst crises in its 104-year history. The Chicago-based manufacturer halted production in January, 10 months after the jet was grounded worldwide following two crashes that killed 346 people. Boeing failed ...

Bloomberg The government of Sri Lanka is considering ways of recovering damages, including claiming compensation from Airbus SE, after the European planemaker admitted to bribing executives to win aircraft orders. “The reputational damage was huge, enormous,” Vipula Gunatilleka, chief executive officer of state-run SriLankan Airlines Ltd, said in an interview at the Singapore Airshow on Wednesday. “That’s why our government ...

Bloomberg The timing couldn’t be much worse for Asia’s biggest airshow as the novel coronavirus roils the aviation industry. The outbreak has prompted scores of companies and VIPs to pull out of the Singapore Airshow, including F-35 fighter-jet maker Lockheed Martin Corp and Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (Comac). Industry leaders Boeing Co and Airbus SE, which usually count on ...

Bloomberg The US Transportation Department’s Inspector General is opening a new review of how regulators decided on pilot-training requirements for Boeing Co’s grounded 737 Max. The Inspector General is beginning an audit of domestic and international pilot training standards, it said in a press release. The evaluation was requested by Democratic and Republican lawmakers. The audit will focus on the ...

Bloomberg Philippine Airlines Inc and Cebu Air Inc have suspended their Taiwan flights after the Southeast Asian nation expanded its travel ban on the novel coronavirus. The order temporary barring the entry and departure of foreign nationals from China, Hong Kong and Macau will also cover Taiwan, the Bureau of Immigration said. Both carriers suspended the Taiwan flights starting from ...

Bloomberg Embraer SA’s top salesman expressed his concerns about European Union (EU) regulators for holding up an agreement to sell the company’s commercial plane business to Boeing Co. “I am better at supporting my team in designing and building and selling new aircraft than I am at the tedious environment or the structured environment of going through antitrust approval,” John ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE is in talks to buy out Bombardier Inc’s stake in the A220 jetliner program, according to people familiar with the matter. The negotiations between the companies are at an advanced stage, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The deal could be announced as early as this week, with both ...

Bloomberg NASA is reviewing Boeing Co’s software engineering, and it doesn’t like what it sees. Lurking behind 1 million lines of code for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lies a deficient development process that led to two software flaws during a failed test flight, the US space agency said. The “critical software defects” — either of which could have caused the ...

Bloomberg Wind filled the highest ever portion of Britain’s electricity needs as Storm Ciara moved across the country, disrupting power supplies, interrupting transport and forcing soccer matches to be postponed. High winds also helped shorten the flying time from North America to Europe. British Airways flight 112 became the fastest ever subsonic passenger flight from New York to London, at ...