Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Etihad Aviation Group Board of Directors on Tuesday announced that James Hogan will step down as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company in the second half of 2017. The Board and Hogan first initiated the transition process last year with the formation in May of the Etihad Aviation Group, a diversified …

  Dubai / Reuters Dubai International Airport remained the world’s busiest for international passengers in 2016, as existing markets grew and new routes were launched, the airport’s operator said. Annual traffic rose 7.2 percent to 83.6 million passengers in 2016 from a year ago, the operator said in a statement on Tuesday. It was Dubai airport’s second slowest annual growth …

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is set to dodge antitrust fines from a European Union probe into its e-book deals with publishers, according to two people familiar with the company’s bid to settle the 19-month investigation. Amazon has agreed to change controversial clauses that required publishers to offer it terms as good as or better than those they sign with other …