January, 2017

• 17 January

  MH370 families despair as search ends

  

    Bloomberg The hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was called off on Tuesday after almost three years of fruitless toil. The Boeing Co. 777 aircraft disappeared on March 8, 2014, on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. According to satellite data, the jet headed south over the Indian Ocean for about six hours ...

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• 17 January

  Delta adds diversity training for flight crews

  

    Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. will begin diversity training for all of its flight crews after at least two widely publicized incidents where passengers said they were discriminated against or treated uncivilly on its flights. Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian banned a passenger for life in November after the man was videotaped yelling in support of Donald Trump. A ...

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• 17 January

  Saudi Arabia’s new airline to fly leased Airbus A320s

  

    RIYADH / Reuters Saudi Arabian Airlines’ budget carrier Flyadeal will lease six Airbus A320s, an Airbus executive said, a sign that the European planemaker might again have pipped Boeing in the race to win a big Middle East deal. Flyadeal, which is set to start services in mid-2017, is aiming to operate a fleet of up to 50 narrow ...

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• 17 January

  Flynas seeks IPO regulatory approval

  

    Bloomberg Saudi budget airline Flynas plans to seek regulatory approval this year for an initial public offering that would make it the first carrier to be listed on the country’s stock exchange, part of a broader effort to diversity the economy in the face of weak oil prices. The closely held carrier, which announced an deal for 80 Airbus ...

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• 17 January

  Cups with a long history!

  

    Wittenberg / DPA You might have thought disposable cups were a modern invention, but in fact they’ve been around for hundreds of years – and back in the day they had a lot more style than today. Archaeologists at Wittenberg Castle in eastern Germany found layers of broken cups at a recent dig, which they believe were simply thrown ...

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• 17 January

  Searching for shadowland

  

    Dusseldorf / DPA An empty, dimly lit railway station somewhere out in the suburbs, in the middle of the night. Safe or not? “It’s a classic example of a place that can make people feel anxious,” says Udo Diederich, who spent 41 years in the German police. Despite being retired he’s still keen to help people. The 61-year-old is ...

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• 17 January

  LNG consumption to reach 422 million tonnes by 2013

  

    Bloomberg Liquefied natural gas prices falling to the lowest in a decade last year spurred fresh demand while suppressing investment in new production, potentially leading to shortages and price spikes next decade, according to a new Bloomberg New Energy Finance report. Global annual LNG consumption is seen rising to 422 million tons by 2030, almost two-thirds higher than last ...

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• 17 January

  Jordan tourism revenues stable at $4bn

    Bloomberg Jordan’s tourism sector has proved resilient with revenues stable at $4 billion in 2016 year against the previous year despite several militant attacks, the tourism minister said on Monday. Jordan hosted last year 3.8 million foreign visitors who spent in the country at least one night, a rise of 2.6 percent from the previous year, Lina Annab told ...

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• 17 January

  Chinese, Germans seek to turn Chernobyl wasteland to solar park

  

    Bloomberg Chinese and Germans are among dozens of investors taking Ukraine up on its offer to turn the grounds of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters into a massive solar park. Thirteen international investors are among the 39 groups seeking Ukraine permission to install about 2 gigawatts of solar panels inside the radioactive exclusion zone surrounding the defunct ...

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• 17 January

  China’s crude output decline to help OPEC ‘glut curb’

  

    Bloomberg OPEC’s campaign to prop up oil prices is getting unlikely support from its biggest customer. China’s production is forecast to fall by as much as 7 percent this year, extending a record decline in 2016, according to analysts at CLSA Ltd., Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. and Nomura Holdings Inc. That’s about the same size as the output ...

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