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Bloomberg British Airways (BA) is entering conciliation talks with pilots in a bid to head off a walkout over pay at the height of the summer travel season. The unit of IAG SA will meet with the BALPA union at the UK’s Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service on Monday, spokespeople for the two sides told Bloomberg. The talks, which will ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE and Boeing Co’s record output of jetliners is spurring a blistering pace of mergers among aerospace suppliers as companies seek growth to keep up with demand, according to a Lazard Ltd investment banker. The market for deals, which reached an all-time high of $120 billion last year, is “extremely robust,” Michael Richter, head of aerospace and defense, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) and First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) are celebrating Year of Tolerance in UAE by helping an Abu Dhabi-based school for people of determination to drastically reduce its electricity and water bills. Funds raised from a special co-branded, biodegradable credit card, launched at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2013, are now being ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Emirates Water and Electricity Company (Ewec), the UAE’s leading procurer of water and electricity, has issued a tender for the construction and development of a new 2,000 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power project to be located at Al Dhafra, Abu Dhabi. The new project forms part of a series of projects approved by the higher ...

Bloomberg Al Jaber Group agreed with banks to restructure $1.5 billion of debt for a second time, people with knowledge of the plan said. The group is close to signing a deal with about 20 creditors to push out loan maturities to December 2026, said the people, asking not to be identified because the information is private. In return, Al ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways celebrated the deployment of its first Airbus A380 ‘super jumbo’ on its scheduled daily services to Seoul, Korea. The occasion was marked in style with a spectacular ‘Abu Dhabi Night’ evening reception at The Shilla Hotel in Seoul, with the venue hosting a unique opportunity to showcase the two cultures, Korean and Emirati, coming ...

Bloomberg Oil gained after suffering its biggest drop on the day of an Opec meeting in more than four years. Futures rose 0.8 percent in New York after an industry report showed US oil inventories fell by almost 5 million barrels last week. Prices were still far from recouping the 4.8 percent decline, when concerns about the global economy overshadowed ...

TIRANA / WAM Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, ADFD, has launched infrastructure projects in Albania valued at AED240 million ($65 million). A delegation of the fund led by Adel Al Hosani, Director of Operations Department at ADFD, participated in the official inauguration of the final phase of ADFD funded projects in capital Tirana, the Tirana Northern Boulevard and Tirana River ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Central Bank of the UAE has issued a commemorative silver coin and a commemorative one Dirham coin, on the occasion of celebrating the 50th anniversary of establishment of Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) with effect from Wednesday, July 3. A bank press release said the obverse face of the coin depicts the logo of the occasion ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE’s new satellite ‘Falcon Eye’ — which will be launched into orbit next Saturday – has taken four years to be ready, going through several stages, ending up in being shipped from the French city of Toulouse to the French city of Guiana on June 1. The satellite is designed to provide global coverage for ...