Bloomberg Boeing Co plans to end production of its F/A-18 Super Hornet, the fighter jet that wowed movie audiences in last year’s Top Gun: Maverick, after more than 2,000 deliveries over 40 years. The aerospace giant will stop manufacturing the fighters after it hands over the last Super Hornet to the US Navy in late 2025, according to a ...
Read More »IAG sees strong bookings, makes bid for Air Europa
Bloomberg IAG SA said it’s enjoying strong bookings into this year, led by holiday travel and stable business trips, and predicted a further recovery in 2023 as the aviation industry emerges from its worst-ever crisis sparked by the pandemic. Full year operating profit will reach about €1.8 billion to €2.3 billion, while net debt will remain broadly unchanged at ...
Read More »Thai Airways’ fourth quarter profit surges amid travel boom
Bloomberg Thai Airways International Pcl’s fourth quarter profit almost tripled after Thailand eased pandemic-related border restrictions and tourists started to come back to the popular Southeast Asia holiday destination. The carrier’s net income for the three months ended on December 31 rose to 11.2 billion baht ($322 million) from 4 billion baht a year earlier, Chief Executive Officer Chai ...
Read More »Tesco, Aldi join grocers rationing fruit, vegetable sales in UK
Bloomberg Tesco Plc has joined discounter Aldi in limiting purchases of some fruit and vegetables in the UK after difficult harvests due to cold weather in southern Spain and North Africa. Both retailers are capping purchases of peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes to three units per person. The moves follow Morrisons which has a limit of two products and Asda ...
Read More »Singapore Air axes city’s only nonstop route to Vancouver
Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd will scrap the city-state’s only nonstop flight to Vancouver from October, a little more than a year after the Asian carrier returned to Canada. The move is another example of how global hub airlines are having to readjust their networks after the pandemic in order to better match supply and demand. The sharp uptick in ...
Read More »P&G sees harder price-increase choices
Bloomberg Decisions to raise prices again are becoming “more difficult†as inflation wears on, Procter & Gamble Co Chief Financial Officer Andre Schulten said. The Tide maker is focused on offsetting higher costs with productivity savings to minimise the need for price increases. But it still sees a need to charge more to fund innovation that it believes will ...
Read More »BP aims to transform carbon into cash with limestone play
Bloomberg A plan to turn carbon dioxide into limestone — and sell it at a profit — is getting some high-profile backing as BP Plc signs a deal with a San Antonio chemical company that aims to transform greenhouse gas emissions from a liability to a commodity. Under the arrangement, BP and CarbonFree Chemicals Holdings LLC will collaborate to ...
Read More »Harnessing waste heat from Europe industries could save $71.3 billion
Bloomberg Europe’s industries and transportation systems waste so much heat that capturing the excess and reusing it could save consumers more than €67 billion ($71.3 billion), a Danish engineering company said. The surplus produced each year by factories, supermarkets, wastewater facilities, data centers and subways amounts to 2,860 terawatt-hours, nearly the same as the European Union’s total demand for ...
Read More »Eskom deepens power cuts to unprecedented level
Bloomberg South Africa is experiencing an unprecedented level of power blackouts. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. cut 7,045 megawatts from the grid — a move to prevent a total shutdown of the national grid — spokesman Sikonathi Mantshantsha said in a Tweet. He confirmed that the intensity of power cuts increased to the so-called Stage 7 of loadshedding, as the ...
Read More »European gas reaches tipping point to price out coal in power
Bloomberg European gas prices rose amid expectations of higher demand from power producers, after a recent slump improved the profitability of the fuel compared to coal. Benchmark futures have been fluctuating near €50 over the last few days after plunging about 35% since the start of the year. Together with surging carbon prices, that could rein in an increased reliance ...
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