Aviation

  Hanoi / Bloomberg Boeing Co. won an order for 100 jets from VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Co. valued at $11.3 billion in list prices as Vietnam’s only private airline expands fleet amid a surge in travel. VietJet signed the agreement on Monday in Hanoi during President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam. Delivery of the Boeing 737 Max 200 planes …

  Dublin / AP European budget carrier Ryanair posted record full-year profits and passenger figures, and expects both to hit new highs this summer amid rapid growth and declining fares. Monday’s results for the year ending March 31 showed the Dublin-based airline strengthening on every front. Net profit before exceptional gains rose 43 percent to 1.24 billion euros ($1.4 billion) and …

  Brasilia / Bloomberg Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA said it sold 23 business jets with a list value of $260 million to an expanding Mexican charter operator, which has an option to double the order. Servicios Aereos Across SA has begun to take deliveries for the first aircraft in its firm order, which includes eight Legacy 500, eight Phenom 300 …

  Mumbai / Bloomberg SpiceJet Ltd. is considering hedging jet fuel for the first time since 2009-10 as the Indian budget carrier expects crude oil prices to rise further, people with direct knowledge of the plans said. Oil has surged more than 70 percent from a 12-year low reached in January on signs the global surplus will ease as US …

  Sriharikota / Bloomberg India successfully launched a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday, a project that in time could pit the nation against billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in the race to make access to space cheaper and easier. The winged vessel — one-fifth of full size — blasted off on a rocket from Sriharikota base …

  Bloomberg Bombardier Inc. has removed from its production schedule an order for C Series aircraft placed six years ago by bankrupt Republic Airways Holdings Inc. Republic agreed in February 2010 to 40 firm orders and 40 options for the CS300 model, with deliveries initially scheduled to start in 2015. While the firm orders remain in the planemaker’s backlog, removal …

  Hillsboro / AP A high-flying drone that will be used to test precision agriculture methods made its inaugural flight in North Dakota amid handshakes and smiles from aircraft operators and farm officials. The Israeli-manufactured Elbit Systems Hermes 450 aircraft took off from the Hillsboro airport to start a summer-long project that will take pictures of farmland in the fertile Red …

  Paris / Bloomberg If the sudden disappearance of an EgyptAir flight turns out to be the work of terrorists, it will be the fourth such attack in the past year on air travelers in North African countries battling militant groups. Even as airports in Europe and North America have strengthened security, experts say that gaps in screening of employees …

  Berlin / AFP The head of Germany’s doctors’ association has lashed out at both Lufthansa and aviation regulators for failing to prevent last year’s Germanwings crash by allowing a pilot who suffered from severe depression to fly. Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed flight A320 in the French Alps in March 2015, killing himself and the 149 others on board. Investigators subsequently …

Paris / AFP France will test an EU-wide passenger data sharing system aimed at helping to detect extremists at two of its busiest airports later this month, a senior interior ministry official said on Saturday. The Passenger Name Record system, approved by the European Parliament in April, will be tested at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport and that of southeastern Nice …