Bloomberg The head of Boeing Co.’s 737 jetliner programme and site manager for the Seattle-area factory where the popular narrow-body plane is manufactured will retire at the end of the year. Scott Campbell is stepping down after three decades at Boeing, a career that encompassed all of the company’s current commercial aircraft product lines. He’ll be replaced by Eric Lindblad, …

Bloomberg Air Canada has a succession gap now that its No. 2 executive is leaving to run Europe’s largest airline. But the Canadian carrier has a deep management bench that will minimise disruption, say Cowen & Co. and RBC Capital Markets. Chief Operating Officer Ben Smith will leave Air Canada on August 31 to take charge at Air France-KLM, the …

Bloomberg Labour unions are lobbying shareholders at strike-ravaged Ryanair Holdings Plc to pressure the airline into abandoning a business model they say is based on browbeating staff to keep down costs. Other discount carriers manage to turn a profit while maintaining a healthy working environment, the Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian unions said to investors, adding that Ryanair has been …