Bloomberg Nearly 20 years after abandoning his hostile bid for Air Canada, Gerry Schwartz finally got his airline by agreeing to buy WestJet Airlines Ltd for C$3.5 billion ($2.6 billion). Schwartz’s private equity firm Onex Corp agreed to pay cash for Canada’s second-biggest carrier, and plans to take the company private in one of the buyout firm’s biggest deals. Onex …

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is launching a delivery option that will let customers retrieve parcels from staffed counters at UK and Italian retailers, aiming to take advantage of the popularity of click-and-collect services across Europe. The US online retailer has struck a partnership with Next Plc to operate the counters at the apparel chain’s more than 500 outlets across Britain, where …

Bloomberg Air France plans to cut as many as 465 jobs as it slashes short-haul capacity in a bid to stem losses amid competition from low-cost airlines and high-speed trains. The biggest division of Air France-KLM Group will eliminate the positions on French domestic routes over the coming year, it said in a statement. Consultation with unions and other stakeholders …