April, 2020

• 20 April

  America’s top airlines prepare for painful fall

  

  Bloomberg US airlines face a bleak future of depressed traffic and volatile revenue well into 2021, as the global economy transitions from the acute damage of a public health catastrophe into a potentially long recession. Already a bumpy ride for the “Big Three” carriers, the journey promises to get worse this fall when billions of dollars in government assistance comes ...

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• 20 April

  Airbus to furlough 3,000 French staff

  

  Bloomberg Airbus SE will furlough around 3,000 staff across three French sites just as employees at its UK wing plants prepare to return to work following extended Easter shutdowns tied to the coronavirus outbreak. The staff at commercial aircraft sites in Toulouse, Nantes and Saint-Nazaire were expected to be on leave from Monday until mid-May following an accord with unions, ...

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• 20 April

  Branson says Virgin’s airlines need state aid to survive

  

  Bloomberg British billionaire Richard Branson said his airlines in the UK and Australia won’t survive the coronavirus crisis without state support, and that his Virgin Group lacks the resources to see them through the pandemic. Branson said on Monday he’s doing everything possible to keep Crawley, England-based Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd going, but that it needs a UK-backed loan to ...

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• 20 April

  Singapore’s Zilingo slashes 5% of its global workforce

  Bloomberg Zilingo, a fashion technology platform backed by Temasek Holdings Pte, has cut 5% of its 900-strong global workforce as part of a strategy to refocus on Asia and emerging markets, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Singapore-based startup dismissed 44 employees, including about 30 in the city-state, according to the person, who asked not to be ...

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• 20 April

  Fresh blow for Boeing as China firm scraps Max order

  Bloomberg China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co cancelled an order for 29 Boeing Co 737 Max planes, worth at least $2.9 billion based on list prices, joining a growing list of customers scaling back plans for buying the grounded jet. The move cuts the company’s outstanding Max order to 70, it said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock ...

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• 19 April

  Abu Dhabi issues $7 billion in multi-tranche bonds

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM The emirate of Abu Dhabi on April 8 priced a $7 billion multi-tranche international bond offering, which attracted strong interest from international investors. In a statement on Sunday, Abu Dhabi Department of Finance said the successful issuance is an integral component of Abu Dhabi’s medium-term strategy focused on optimisng the capital structure of the emirate. The ...

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• 19 April

  Gross bank assets for March hit AED3.12tn

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE central bank announced on Sunday that gross bank assets for March had reached AED3.128 trillion, a growth of 1.1 percent from the previous month. In a statement, the central bank noted that money supply aggregate M1 had increased by 2.5 percent last month, reaching AED542.7 billion compared to February figures (AED529.4 billion). It added ...

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• 19 April

  UAE sends aid to Mauritania in fight against coronavirus

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE  has sent a plane carrying 18 metric tons of medical and food aid to Mauritania as a gesture of solidarity in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The shipment, which contained testing kits, medical devices, and food supplies, will assist approximately 10,000 healthcare workers in Mauritania as they work to contain spread of Covid-19. ...

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• 19 April

  Guardians of global economy come up short in virus battle

  

  Bloomberg The guardians of the global economy came up short. Facing what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says is a crisis like no other, policy makers from leading economies agreed this past week on a set of initiatives to help emerging markets and poor nations weather the coronavirus shock, including a path-breaking halt on debt payments. But critics faulted the ...

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• 19 April

  GoAir asks 90% of its staff to go on leave without pay

  

  Bloomberg Go Airlines India Ltd. has asked as many as 90% of its 5,500 employees to go on indefinite leave without pay, as a government ban on flights amid a coronavirus lockdown dries up cash flow for the budget airline, people with knowledge of the matter said. The airline, the second biggest customer for Airbus SE in one of the ...

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