Bloomberg Bombardier Inc. is targetting a major European aircraft order as the next step in the recovery of its C Series programme following a $5.6 billion sale to Delta Air Lines Inc. that helped turn around the jetliner’s prospects. The Canadian planemaker expects a “strong second half of the year” for its marquee jet, which is more than two ...

  Shanghai / AFP An aircraft leasing company will buy 30 of China’s homegrown regional jets for an Indonesian airline to use, a statement said, just two weeks after the ARJ21 made its first commercial flight. Beijing is keen to build an aerospace industry of its own, and almost all orders for the long-delayed ARJ21 aircraft — which was supposed to ...

  London / AFP Burberry appointed Celine chairman Marco Gobbetti as its next chief executive, replacing Christopher Bailey who will become the British luxury fashion group’s new president. Gobbetti, currently the chairman and chief executive of French luxury brand Celine, will join the board in 2017 “as soon as he is contractually able to do so”, Burberry said in a recent ...