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Airbus delivered record 863 jetliners in 2019

Bloomberg Airbus SE delivered a record 863 planes last year, edging beyond its target of about 860 after overcoming production snarls with its best-selling A320 family, the chief rival to Boeing Co’s grounded 737 Max. Bigger versions of Airbus’s largest A321neo narrow-body also drove net orders 2.8% higher to 768 aircraft, it said, as airlines snapped them up to replace ...

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Amazon calls PayPal’s $4 billion Honey add-on ‘security risk’

Bloomberg PayPal Holdings Inc made a big bet in November with its $4 billion acquisition of Honey, a web browser extension that helps online shoppers find the lowest prices. Now Amazon.com Inc is warning customers not to use the tool. Shortly before Christmas, Amazon said Honey posed a security risk, which was reported by Wired. The warning perplexed some online ...

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Southwest Air hit with $3.9mn fine for weight breaches

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co was hit with a proposed $3.92 million civil penalty by US aviation regulators for allegedly operating thousands of flights with inaccurate weight estimates of its planes. The airline flew 44 jets on a total of 21,505 flights with “incorrect” weight estimates, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. Airlines must calculate the weight of each plane before ...

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