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AGL to spend $6.9 billion in shift to renewables from coal

BLOOMBERG AGL Energy Ltd said it would massively expand its production of clean energy as it abandons coal-fired power plants. The company will spend as much as A$10 billion ($6.9 billion) of its own money to build new facilities, including with debt-financing, Chief Financial Officer Gary Brown said. The Australian coal giant, which came under attack from billionaire climate activist ...

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Cathay Pacific to hire more cabin crew from China

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 ...

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Boeing prepares to accelerate output of its cash-cow 737 jets as tail glitch fades

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 ...

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