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Commercial-jet manufacturing is a notoriously difficult business, yet China's boundless business ambition appears to be supported by promising markets. As worldwide air travel steadily increases, airlines will need to buy almost 29,000 planes worth $2.8 trillion over the next two decades, with nearly one-third of them...
While the renewed allegations of insider trading represent yet another blow to Airbus and may put more downward pressure on EADS share prices, it won't constitute a long-term threat to the company's future - especially if the A380 proves popular with airlines. However, according to Anne Maré...
A squabble with cabin-crew employees in January over pay and working conditions triggered flight cancellations that set BA back $150 million. In July a report by the Association of European Airlines put the firm near the bottom of the region's carriers for punctuality. In a ranking of lost...
The opening of T5, as the new terminal is known, should help tackle another of BA's weaknesses: its much criticized hub. "BA has a fundamental challenge none of its European peers suffer from," says Chris Avery, an airline analyst at JPMorgan in London. "Heathrow is stretched to its limits...
For all the challenges of the past couple of years, BA is facing perhaps its biggest test yet of the Walsh era. The airline's shares have plunged almost a third since February, owing partly to worries that liberalization of the transatlantic market next year will cut into its profits...