BERLIN / Reuters Emirates will press ahead with plans to launch flights on Sunday to Newark in the United States via Greece, despite attempts by members of the US Congress to block the route, the airline’s president said. Twenty-five members of Congress have written to US President Donald Trump asking him to stop the flight over accusations Emirates and …

  Bloomberg Qatar Airways unveiled a new aircraft seat that can be docked with one next to it to create what the Gulf carrier says will be the industry’s first double bed in a business-class cabin. The so-called QSuite is more flexible than earlier models and will also allow four berths to be realigned to form a mini meeting area, …

  DUBAI / Reuters An Airbus A330 airliner arrived in Tehran on Saturday, the second of 200 Western-built passenger aircraft ordered by IranAir following the lifting of sanctions on Iran last year. The long-haul aircraft, carrying IranAir Chairman Farhad Parvaresh and other officials, landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, the official news agency IRNA reported. The A330 was handed over in …