Aviation

Bloomberg Airbus SE officially cancelled a book commissioned for its 50th anniversary, citing a shift in its ‘‘communication content goals.” “Airbus acknowledges the quality of the finished manuscript,” the company said in a statement, which was titled ‘‘Airbus: The First 50 Years” and written by ex-New York Times journalist Nicola Clark. Bloomberg News reported in July that the book was ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc lost a bid to stop a top executive joining rival EasyJet Plc next month after a bitter legal battle. An Irish judge ruled Chief Operating Officer Peter Bellew can join EasyJet in the same role on January 1 as planned. Ryanair had argued that Bellew must abide by a 12 month non-compete clause before moving to ...

Bloomberg Mounting concern about carbon emissions may be altering travel habits in Europe’s largest economy as figures from German airports show a steady decline in passengers taking domestic flights. The number of people flying between German cities fell 12% in November from a year earlier, according to the ADV industry group, marking a fourth straight monthly drop and mirroring a ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE is in discussions with General Electric Co. and Safran SA’s airplane CFM International unit to increase supplies of its engines as Boeing Co. halts production of the beleaguered 737 Max narrow-body, reports said. The engine maker is seeking to ramp up production of the 1A variant of the CFM LEAP engine, which is used on the A320neo ...

Bloomberg American Airlines is canceling reward trips and seizing miles, joining partner Citigroup in cracking down on customers who take advantage of the carrier’s loyalty program by opening multiple accounts. Some customers have started complaining in recent weeks on Twitter and a popular Reddit site for people who make a hobby of signing up for credit cards, either properly or ...

Bloomberg From its colonial trading days to reclaiming land from the sea, the Netherlands has a tradition of pushing the limits, but a public backlash over a planned airport suggests that many Dutch have had enough. With the opening of a second Amsterdam hub delayed by 20 months and counting, political fronts are hardening ahead of a crucial environmental-impact report ...

Bloomberg An Irish company that buys and leases airplanes sued Boeing Co. in the US to void contracts for almost two dozen 737 Max aircraft and to demand at least $185 million in damages, citing design flaws that led to two deadly crashes. Timaero Ireland Ltd., based in Dublin, sued Boeing in federal court in Chicago, alleging fraud and breach ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co. scrubbed plans for its CST-100 Starliner to rendezvous with the International Space Station on the capsule’s debut flight, raising doubts over whether the company will be able to ferry astronauts to the orbiting laboratory next year. The mishap represented another high-profile setback for an aerospace giant that was already contending with the prolonged grounding of its top-selling ...

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc. has given up on flying the Boeing Co. 737 Max until June, two months longer than rival US carriers, as the regulatory fate of the grounded aircraft remains unclear. The Max will be removed from its schedule until June 4, the Chicago-based carrier said. American Airlines Group Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co., the other US ...

Bloomberg A pilot on a jet carrying Amazon.com Inc. packages that crashed near Houston in February had a record of repeatedly flunking flight tests and may have become disoriented in clouds, according to newly released documents. The pilot mistakenly thought the plane’s nose was pointed too high and jerked the jet down so steeply that the Boeing Co. 767 dove ...