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Airbus sees 4 orders, 103 cancellations in 2019

Bloomberg Two months into 2019, Airbus SE has logged cancellations for 103 jetliners and garnered a grand total of four new sales — and those orders were for the A220 plane manufactured in Canada by Bomb- ardier Inc. The deal for the A220s — formerly the Bombardier C Series — with Pacific Ocean carrier Air Vanuatu represented Airbus’s only new ...

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Airplane pollution soars with no viable plan to rein them in

Bloomberg Environmental activists recoil for a reason when the super-rich fly private jets to forums that preach carbon neutrality. Airplane pollution levels really are going through the stratosphere and nobody seems to have a viable plan to rein them in. While energy generation and agriculture currently dwarf aviation’s 1.3 percent share of all human-caused greenhouse gases, emissions from air travel ...

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Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade reaches AED1.3trn

DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s external non-oil trade in 2018 reached AED1.3 trillion despite challenges facing global trade growth resulting from trade tensions between major economic powers and a global growth slowdown that has led to currency rate volatility in developing countries. The latest trade figures show that Dubai is moving forward steadily as a leading international and regional trade hub ...

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