Bloomberg Airbus Group SE lost an order for two A380 superjumbos from Indian Ocean carrier Air Austral, which had aimed to fit the planes with the highest-capacity seating layout in the history of civil aviation. The aircraft, whose planned 840-seat configuration had led them to be widely labeled by the media as “flying sardine cans,” were removed from Airbus’s order ...

Sunaina Rana/ Emirates Business Messe Frankfurt has established a prominent name in the region for organising trade fairs. The company deems organising fair their passion. Like hardly any other company, Messe Frankfurt is a byword for internationally successful trade fair concepts. With its brands, the Group is as much at home in key international hubs as at its own Frankfurt ...

Our Correspondent / EMIRATES BUSINESS La Chaux-de-Fonds is the cradle of Swiss fine watchmaking. In 1887 Georges Eberhard, then aged 22, founded the Eberhard & Co Watchmaking Manufacture there. From the very outset, the Firm specialised in the manufacture of technical watches, producing its first wrist chronograph in 1919. This complication would later become the firm’s specialty. Eberhard & Co ...