Bloomberg Airbus SE is considering a cut in A330neo jet production after the wide-body’s biggest customer said a coronavirus-driven slump in travel had forced it to defer deliveries, according to people familiar with the matter. The planemaker may make a decision as soon as this month, the people said, asking not to be identified because the deliberations are private. In …
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Virus adds to woes of Garuda facing debt bill
Bloomberg The coronavirus outbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time for PT Garuda Indonesia, pummeling demand at the flag carrier just as it faces a debt bill for half a billion dollars. Debt market concern about sagging travel demand and the impact of financial market turmoil has caused Garuda’s $500 million notes due on June 3 to tumble to …
Read More »Virus outbreak tied to Vietnam Airlines flight triggers hoarding
Bloomberg An outbreak of four coronavirus cases tied to a Vietnam Airlines flight from London to Hanoi triggered hoarding in the Southeast Asian country’s capital, the lockdown of a central city neighbourhood and the home quarantine of an investment minister aboard the aircraft. A growing sense that the virus may be bypassing Vietnam, which hadn’t reported an official case in …
Read More »Asia’s fried-chicken king takes $2b hit with US gamble
Bloomberg If 2019 was a bad year for Tony Tan Caktiong, the Philippine tycoon who built a fast-food empire that trounced McDonald’s in his home market, 2020 is shaping out to be worse for his company’s stock. After wooing millions of Filipinos for decades with its signature fried chicken, Tan’s Jollibee Foods Corp set out on an expansion in the …
Read More »Cathay to temporarily suspend Japan flights
Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will suspend flights to and from Japan for three weeks after the Japanese government tightened quarantine rules on people arriving from Hong Kong. Flights to and from Hong Kong and four Japanese airports and cities — Tokyo’s Haneda airport, Fukuoka, Nagoya and Sapporo — will stop from Monday until March 28, and halted for Narita …
Read More »UK to leave EU aviation regulator in 2021
Bloomberg The UK will withdraw as a member state of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) after December 31, Aviation Week reported, citing an interview with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. “We will leave EASA,†Shapps said in the interview. “A lot of the expertise they have is UK expertise, in fact. A lot of the key leading lights were …
Read More »G-20 vows to take actions to aid economies amid virus
Bloomberg Finance chiefs from the world’s top industrial and emerging nations committed to “take further actions†to aid the world economy amid mounting fears the coronavirus is dragging it towards a recession. At the end of a week in which the virus spread and an emergency Federal Reserve rate cut failed to calm investors, Group of 20 finance ministers and …
Read More »Oil’s big breakup in Vienna is leaving scars across market
Bloomberg The Opec+ alliance’s dramatic failure to reach an output deal is most obviously being felt in oil futures, which plunged the most since 2008 in London. A look at the less-conspicuous corners of the market reveal the scale of the impact. The potential collapse of the group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia is the latest blow to a …
Read More »Smartphone supplies may soon run out
Bloomberg As Chinese factories hit by the coronavirus look to restart production, the pain is only beginning for carriers that rely on steady shipments of Asian smartphones. AT&T Inc is bracing for handset shortages across the US. A carrier in the UK and one in France are already dealing with supply disruption and could run out of some popular models, …
Read More »Tech firms drop out of SXSW conference over coronavirus
Bloomberg Tech giants continue to drop out of this month’s South by Southwest festival over coronavirus concerns, threatening an event that typically serves as one of the industry’s most influential gatherings. Apple Inc said that it wouldn’t be attending the conference, which kicks off on March 13 in Austin, Texas. The iPhone maker and streaming-video provider had planned to debut …
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