Bloomberg Saudi Arabian low-cost airline Flynas expects to decide “very soon” on an order for as many as 100 planes from either Airbus Group SE or Boeing Co. that it previously targeted for mid-2016. The carrier will communicate a decision to the planemakers “within the next few days or weeks,” Flynas Chief Executive Officer Paul Byrne said in a …

  Bloomberg Bombardier Inc. is on track to overcome delays in shipments of engines for its brand-new C Series jetliner by the end of next year, according to the head of the company’s commercial aircraft unit. “It’s going to take mostly through 2017 to get right back on track,” Fred Cromer, Bombardier’s commercial aircraft president, told reporters Monday in Mirabel, …

  Bloomberg Ask a harried air traveler about the basics of modern flight, and you’ll probably elicit surprise when they discover commercial airplanes fly only as fast as they did in the 1950s. Given the range of aerospace advances in the past half-century, plus the technological leaps in almost every other area of human endeavor, it seems reasonable to ask: …