BLOOMBERG Germany’s defense chief said the country is prepared to station a permanent brigade of some 4,000 troops in Lithuania to help shore up Nato’s eastern flank against potential Russian aggression. The announcement by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius during a visit to Vilnius represented a more robust pledge after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government previously said the German military contingent would …

BLOOMBERG Airbus SE reigned supreme at the Paris Air show, kicking off with a mammoth 500-plane order from low-cost carrier Indigo. Now all it has to do is find enough workers to build them. Lurking just beneath the spectacle of multi-billion dollar aircraft sales and aerial acrobatics on display outside the French capital is a shortage of parts and labour …

BLOOMBERG India’s Akasa Air is in talks with Boeing Co to place a small follow-on order for 737 Max single-aisle jets if it can lock down financing, according to people familiar with the matter. The US planemaker is working to finalise negotiations as soon as this week at the Paris Air Show, the people said, asking not to be identified …