Bloomberg Vietnam airlines bought 40 airplanes worth $6.5 billion from France’s Airbus on Tuesday, as President Francois Hollande visited the communist nation to drum up business ties with one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economies. The deal is the latest move by Vietnamese aviation giants to boost fleets and feed demand from a mushrooming middle class with money to burn …

  Bloomberg Bombardier Inc. expects that business-jet sales will recover in Argentina now that a new government has taken power, helping to offset weakness in Brazil and Venezuela. “Argentina has reopened for the past seven months, and we’ve seen tremendous traction,’’ said Stephane Leroy, sales head for the region. “We had virtually nothing for three years because customers couldn’t buy …

  Bloomberg British Airways said a computer outage brought down its airport check-in system, causing delays to services across its global network and prompting staff to issue passengers with handwritten boarding passes in order to keep flights operating. “We’ve experienced some problems today, which our IT teams are working to resolve as quickly as possible,” the airline said Tuesday via …