Bloomberg The giants of aviation left the Singapore Airshow with little to brag about, but someone ended up with one of the hottest deals in town: a couple of boxes of hand sanitisers. Alarm over the novel coronavirus outbreak has led to panic-buying of unlikely hot commodities, from toilet paper and instant noodles to soap, which people have been using ...

Bloomberg Harrods Department Store Co, a big tourist attraction in London for Chinese shoppers, has prohibited staff from wearing masks when dealing with customers because it may fan unfounded concern about coronavirus. The luxury British department store said it’s not allowing face masks on shop floors due to the “risk of spreading further anxiety” among customers and staff. The move ...

Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc wants to establish Seattle as an international gateway for westward flights to India and other locations, with help from a reinvigorated partnership with Alaska Air Group Inc. Nonstop service will begin in October between Seattle and Bangalore, India, the most requested route by big corporate customers, the airlines said in a statement. American expects to ...

Bloomberg Avianca Holdings SA shares fell the most in a month after the airline’s offices were searched by Colombian authorities as part of a bribery investigation. Colombia’s Attorney General’s office is investigating bribery claims related to the company’s former practice of giving free and discounted tickets to officials from Central American governments, according to a spokesperson for the office. Investigators ...

Bloomberg Bombardier Inc, which once made everything from snowmobiles to commercial jets, is poised to become a shadow of its former self as the Canadian manufacturer accelerates asset sales to reduce debt. The company is completing its exit from commercial aerospace with the sale of its stake in the Airbus SE A220 program, once known as the C Series, to ...

Bloomberg Dusty winds blowing in from the Sahara Desert may disrupt flights to and from the Nigerian commercial capital, Lagos, until the end of February. Poor visibility forced carriers including British Airways, Emirates Airline, Delta Air Lines and Ethiopian Airlines to reroute flights to Abuja, the capital, and neighbouring Ghana and Togo. The problem was compounded by faulty landing equipment ...

Dubai / WAM Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the President of the United States of America on Saturday said that the United Arab Emirates is taking bold leadership in advancing women’s empowerment in the region and expressed the hope that other countries will join the UAE in advancing the active participation of women is various spheres. “The United Arab Emirates is ...

Bloomberg The US said it will increase the tariff rate imposed on aircraft imported from the European Union (EU) to 15% from 10% on March 18. The move is part of a long-running spat in which the US has sought to penalise the EU for offering illegal subsidies to Airbus SE that harmed American aircraft maker Boeing Co. The US Trade ...

HADRAMAUT / WAM The UAE, through its humanitarian arm, the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), provided 600 food parcels weighing 48 tonnes to the residents of Hadramaut Governorate, benefitting 3,000 people who are members of vulnerable Yemeni families in Al-Reida and Qusayr districts. The beneficiaries thanked the UAE’s leadership, government and people for their support and humanitarian gesture. Since the beginning ...

SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD), in a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Energy and Industry (MOEI), will host the UAE-Russian Business Forum, on February 19. The forum aims to enhance and strengthen ties of trade, economic and investment cooperation between UAE, in general, and Sharjah, in particular, and the Federal Republic of Russia, and open ...