Bloomberg Boeing Co’s directors must face an investors’ lawsuit accusing them of failing to properly monitor safety issues and the development of 737 Max jetliners whose two fatal crashes have cost the company more than $20 billion. Delaware Chancery Judge Morgan Zurn threw out some claims against Boeing’s board, but said Boeing shareholders produced enough evidence to justify pursuing claims ...

Bloomberg British Airways (BA) introduced a mechanism allowing customers to buy so-called sustainable aviation fuel to reduce their carbon footprints. The carrier said it will also source enough SAF from BP Plc to power all flights between London and Scotland’s two busiest airports during the COP26 climate summit to be held in Glasgow. Payments for SAF will be offered to ...

Bloomberg London City Airport, a favourite of regional business travellers, is seeing a tentative reawakening as British Airways and Deutsche Lufthansa AG restore flights to key financial centers. Services to Zurich, Frankfurt and Rotterdam are resuming this month, the airport’s chief operating officer, Alison FitzGerald, said in an interview. “We’re seeing some early signs of good load factors, some early ...

Bloomberg UK retail sales growth lost momentum in August, with both shops and consumers pointing to concerns over higher prices. The value of goods sold in shops and online grew 3% in August from a year earlier, the British Retail Consortium and KPMG said, less than the 3.9% recorded the same month in 2020. Despite higher demand for clothing, especially ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE and Alstom SA are deepening a partnership on cybersecurity to counter threats they say are growing against rail transport systems. The French plane and train manufacturers signed a cooperation agreement to provide security systems to rail operators, according to a statement on Wednesday. The move comes as cross-country networks and urban metros and trams become increasingly reliant ...

Bloomberg Swiss running shoemaker On Holding AG, whose proprietary cushioning technology has attracted Roger Federer as an investor, plans to raise as much as $622 million in an initial public offering in New York. The IPO will consist of 31.1 million shares sold at $18 to $20 each, the Zurich-based company said in a filing. The sale would value the ...

Bloomberg Former President Donald Trump frequently teases another presidential bid, without actually announcing, a strategy that leaves him with access to a $102 million war chest, an unrivaled haul that could scare off donors to other candidates and freeze the Republican 2024 race. By not formally declaring, Trump is free to use money from his political action committees to act ...

Bloomberg China’s top agency in Hong Kong praised the arrests of four members of a group that had organised an annual Tiananmen Square vigil, as authorities continued a broader push against local pro-democracy activists. The Liaison Office said in a statement that the arrests of four people on accusations of failing to comply with Beijing-drafted security legislation reflected the “fairness ...

Bloomberg The UK is set to take the lead among developed economies by raising new taxes that will help trim pandemic budget deficits, an issue that’s likely to dominate policy debate across the world in the coming years. A 12-billion pound ($17 billion) charge on workers and companies is due to come before Parliament for a vote. If approved, it ...

Bloomberg Canada reported a third weekly decline in consumer confidence amid concerns about a softening economic outlook. The Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Confidence Index, a measure of sentiment based on household polling, falls 1 point to 61.6 last week, bringing it to the lowest level since March. The index is down 3.5 points over the past three weeks, and almost five ...