Aviation

  Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. scrapped an order for 18 Boeing Co. widebody Dreamliner jets valued at $4 billion at list prices, a commitment that was inherited with the company’s 2008 merger with Northwest Airlines. Atlanta-based Delta reached an agreement with Boeing on the cancellation, without disclosing terms, according to a statement from the carrier. The airline is sticking ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways Engineering and Lantal Textiles AG have launched the first Flammability Test Laboratory in the Middle East, for regional customers within the aviation industry, including VIP operators, MRO organisations, design and production organisations as well as cabin interior suppliers. Located inside the Etihad Airways Engineering facility adjacent to Abu Dhabi International Airport, the new ...

  Montevideo / AFP A cheap flight from Paris to Madrid will set you back about $100. But it costs six times that to cover the same distance in Latin America, where low-cost airlines are only just taking off. Latin America has long lured travellers with its history, music and natural beauty spanning from Mexico’s deserts to the Amazon rainforest ...

  BEIJING / AP China vowed on Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, by around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020. “To explore the vast cosmos, develop the space industry ...

  Paris / AP After finding possible survivors and victim remains, the first priority of air crash investigators is to locate the black boxes, a duo of data recorders that can hold vital clues on why an aircraft went down. Despite their name, the boxes that hold a plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recordings are actually bright orange with ...

  MEXICO CITY / AP The Mexican airline Interjet says it’s had to cancel some flights due to a mandatory safety inspection of its Russian-made Superjet 100 aircraft. Russian authorities issued the directive on Dec. 23 after cracks were found in a part on one of the Sukhoi planes. Interjet is among the largest customers for the relatively new Superjet, ...

  Bloomberg China has tested the latest version of its fifth-generation stealth fighter, state media reported Monday, as it tries to end the West’s monopoly on the world’s most advanced warplanes. The test comes as the nation flexes its military muscles, sending its sole aircraft carrier the Liaoning into the western Pacific in recent days to lead drills there for ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) received close to 1.9 million passengers in November, representing a 4.4% increase in airport traffic compared with November 2015. Abu Dhabi Airports’ traffic figures also show consistent growth throughout the year, with total AUH passenger numbers having increased by 5.3% on the previous year. More than 22 million travelers ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Boeing announced that the Boeing-Mubadala Co-Op internship program is on course to provide vital aerospace engineering expertise to bolster the UAE’s ever-expanding aviation capabilities. The Co-Op program, sponsored by ADEC, was launched by Boeing and Mubadala in 2015 to support the development of a sustainable aerospace industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Six ...

  Bloomberg When you think of Singapore Airlines Ltd., visions appear of cushy premium cabins and bespoke leather seats. It’s all that, yes. But the luxury carrier is working hard to diversify with budget airlines under its corporate banner. It owns low-cost carrier Scoot; 49 percent of Vistara, a joint venture in India with Tata Sons Ltd.; and NokScoot, a ...