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Pilots offered extra $1,211 per month to stay at India’s Go Air

BLOOMBERG Go Airlines India Ltd plans to raise salaries of captains by 100,000 rupees ($1,211) a month and by 50,000 rupees for first officers as it tries to salvage its operations after filing for insolvency on May 2. The additional pay, which the airline calls a retention allowance, will come into effect on June 1, according to an email to ...

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China’s C919 passenger jet makes first commercial flight

BLOOMBERG A made-in-China aircraft to rival Boeing Co and Airbus SE underwent its maiden commercial flight on May 28, almost six months after being delivered to China Eastern Airlines Corp. Flight MU9191 took off from Shanghai at 10:32 am local time, China Eastern said on its Weibo account. The plane carried 128 passengers and landed safely at Beijing, People’s Daily ...

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Rolls-Royce may cut thousands of jobs in turnaround plan

BLOOMBERG Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc could cut thousands of jobs after the company hired consultants led by McKinsey & Co to advise on streamlining its operations, The Times reported. Part of the turnaround plan will see the combination of non-manufacturing departments in each of the company’s civil aerospace, defense and power systems divisions, the newspaper said, citing an unidentified consultancy source. ...

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