Bloomberg United Continental Holdings Inc. is dropping the fee to watch DirecTV live television and films on jets equipped with the service. Free television will now be available on 211 of United’s Boeing Co. single-aisle 737s, United said in a statement on Wednesday. Like most of its rivals, the airline also offers free streamed content across its fleet even as …

Bloomberg Boeing Co. executives are closing in on one of their most important decisions of the decade: whether to plow an estimated $15 billion into a new jetliner family. The aircraft nicknamed the 797 would feature Boeing’s first all-new design since the 787 Dreamliner’s unveiling in 2004, while shoring up its product line against recent Airbus SE advances. The European …

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is set to hold more auctions for offshore wind power, plugging a current gap in tenders for the next three years that the industry has said would harm turbine makers and hamper green targets. Germany will probably add about 5 gigawatts in capacity in the coming years, bringing the total capacity envisaged by the end …