Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc boosted pay as it looks to hire 125,000 warehouse and shipping workers amid a tight US labour market. The e-commerce giant said starting wages for open jobs in logistics average $18 an hour, or 20% more than the $15-an-hour base pay the company set back in 2018, with signing bonuses of as much as $3,000 in some ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE upped the ante in its bid to win a helicopter order from Britain’s Royal Air Force, promising to build all military versions of the H175M model it’s pitching at a new plant in the UK. The assembly line will be installed next to Airbus’s jetliner wing factory in Broughton, Wales, if it’s selected to replace a fleet ...

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co Chief Operating Officer (COO) Mike Van de Ven was named president, effective immediately, replacing Tom Nealon, who chose to retire. Nealon’s departure comes less than three months after Southwest selected Executive Vice President Bob Jordan to replace Gary Kelly as chief executive officer, starting from February 1. Nealon, 60, will remain a strategic adviser at the ...