BLOOMBERG  Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will recruit more cabin crew from mainland China and widen the use of Mandarin language on flights, its chief executive officer said, less than a month after the carrier fired three flight attendants for disparaging passengers who didn’t speak English. “With the growing number of Putonghua-speaking customers, it has always been our intention to recruit …

BLOOMBERG  Boeing Co is preparing to accelerate production of its cash-cow 737 jets “soon,” the planemaker’s commercial chief said, as the company makes progress towards addressing a supplier defect that has slowed deliveries. The rate break to a 38-jet monthly pace will happen “sooner rather than later,” Stan Deal, who heads Boeing’s commercial airplane business, said in Paris ahead of …

BLOOMBERG  JD.com aims to create seven listed firms with market values of $14 billion apiece, outlining aggressive targets spanning two decades as it wrapped its signature 2023 sales gala with another record haul. Sales volume during its “6.18” June online bargains event, reached an all-time high, the company said in a WeChat post. The summer online sales event, in which …