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Airbus wins $3.8bn US deal for 35 A320 jets

  Bloomberg Airbus Group SE won an order for 35 A320-series jets from US leasing firm Aviation Capital Group, marking its first sale of 2017. The contract with Aviation Capital, a unit of Pacific Life Insurance Co., is for 30 A320neo planes, the re-engined version of Airbus’s single-aisle workhorse, together with two original A320 variants and three larger A321s. That ...

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Musafir.com appoints former DIFC CFO as new group CEO

  Emirates Business Musafir.com, the UAE’s first Online Travel Agency (OTA), on Tuesday announced the appointment of Rajesh Pareek as its new Group CEO, as the company gears up for its first major round of business financing. Rajesh joins the company from Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), where he hadserved as Chief Financial Officer from January 2011 to December 2016. ...

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Lufthansa, IAG reel in Air France-KLM atop traffic rankings

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG and British Airways parent IAG SA closed in on Air France-KLM Group at the top of Europe’s airline rankings in 2016 as passenger traffic at the Paris-based carrier was dented by pilot strikes and sluggish demand amid a spate of terrorist attacks. Lufthansa’s traffic, or the number of customers carried multiplied by the distance flown, ...

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