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Boeing China veteran to take top sales job

  Bloomberg Boeing Co.’s chief airplane salesman, John Wojick, will retire from the post in early 2017 after four years of globetrotting and head-to-head competitions with Airbus Group SE for multibillion-dollar jetliner orders. He’ll be replaced by senior vice president Ihssane Mounir, who leads the planemaker’s sales team in northeastern Asia, Boeing commercial airplane chief Ray Conner said in an ...

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Kenya Airways to halt ticket sales

  Bloomberg Kenya Airways will stop selling tickets unless a pilots union calls off a seven-day strike to protest against Chief Executive Officer Mbuvi Ngunze as Africa’s third-largest airline strives to minimize losses from the walkout. “The threatened action is already costing Kenya Airways significant losses as passengers have begun to make cancellations,” the airline part-owned by Air France-KLM said ...

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Australian, NZ carriers ban recalled Note 7

  Sydney / AFP Australian and New Zealand airlines barred the recalled Samsung Note 7 from all planes starting Sunday citing its “potential fire risk”, after a similar ban was imposed by US officials. Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, has halted production of its latest flagship mobile device and recalled all Note 7 phones and replacements following reports of ...

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