Bloomberg Airbus SE handed over 72 aircraft last month, stepping up deliveries even as coronavirus flare-ups delayed a recovery in air travel. The surge confirmed an earlier Bloomberg report and marked the best performance so far this year for the European planemaker. Its quarterly total of 125 surpassed the 122 aircraft delivered in the year-ago period, largely before the pandemic …

Bloomberg Struggling UK mall operator Hammerson Plc has agreed to sell its retail parks to Canadian private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management Inc for 350 million pounds ($480 million), the Sunday Times reported. Brookfield will acquire seven retail parks, giving a much-needed financial boost to the owner of Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre. Hammerson, which owns once-prized shopping centres across the …

Bloomberg Boeing Co expects India’s air passenger traffic to double from pre-pandemic levels by 2030 even as any imminent travel recovery looks to be thwarted by a second Covid wave in the South Asian nation. “Although the Covid-19 pandemic sharply reduced Indian air travel last year, the country’s domestic passenger traffic is recovering more rapidly than in most other countries …