Bloomberg HNA Group Co. has been trying for months to offload passenger planes it ordered from Airbus SE, according to people familiar with the matter, as the indebted airline-turned-glo-bal acquirer wrestles with liquidity challenges. The Chinese group asked the leasing arms of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and China Minsheng Banking Corp., amo-ng others, to take over at …

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is paying the price of chasing market share in its own backyard as the cost of integrating jets from collapsed rival Air Berlin Plc weighs on earnings. Lufthansa shares fell 9.5 percent, the biggest intraday drop in more than 2 years, after the German carrier’s latest results missed analyst estimates, forcing it to trim expansion plans …

Bloomberg Once again, the world is transfixed with an undersea search to solve the mystery of why an airliner plunged into the ocean. With images of the years-long unsuccessful search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 still fresh, the Indonesian government has dispatched 34 boats and more than 800 military and civilian personnel in search of a Lion Air plane that …