Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc is taking a hard look at whether to buy Airbus SE’s proposed A321XLR aircraft, people familiar with the matter said. Any deal would be a big blow to struggling Boeing Co’s rival foray into mid-range flying. The US carrier sees the plane, which would have the longest range of Airbus’s single-aisle offerings, as a potential ...

Bloomberg South African Airways is in talks with its existing banks, new lenders and the government. But talking won’t pay off 12.7 billion rand ($842 million) of imminently maturing debt. The stricken state-owned carrier called a media briefing to “give assurances to stakeholders about the airline currently and into the future” following the surprise departure of Chief Executive Officer Vuyani ...

Bloomberg Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said the larger engines mounted to the Boeing 737 Max represented a design flaw and called for the plane to be permanently grounded. The 737 Max “must never fly again,” Nader said. “It’s not a matter of software. It’s a matter of structural design defect: the plane’s engines are too much for the traditional fuselage.” ...