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Aeroflot to make full payment of fifth coupon on BO-3 exchange-traded bonds

PJSC Aeroflot announces that it will make full payment to investors of the fifth coupon on its series BO-3 exchange-traded bonds. Payment for the fifth coupon period was made by PJSC Aeroflot in October 2015, when the Company transferred funds to cover in full its obligations...

Why Did Google Invest $1 Billion in SpaceX?

Did you notice this big investment Google made last year? You may have missed it. After all, the U.S. space company hadn't yet earned itself a name for successfully landing a rocket on the ground just after the rocket delivered a payload in space. But the investment shouldn't be overlook...

Delta’s Financials Have Improved So Much Its Debt Rating Is No Longer Junk

Delta Air Lines Inc. achieved its longstanding goal of regaining investment-grade credit, following through on a priority of retiring Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson. Moody’s Investors Service raised the airline’s senior unsecured debt rating to Baa3, the lowest investment-quality level and higher than the junk grades of rival carriers American Airlines Group Inc. and Unite...

JetBlue Launches Venture Capital Subsidiary to Invest in Travel Startups

JetBlue unveiled a new subsidiary, JetBlue Technology Ventures, which is based in a Silicon Valley incubator and will provide seed funding to early stage technology, travel, and hospitality startups. JetBlue Technology Ventures is led by its president, Bonny Simi, a JetBlue pilot who had been working on talent acquisition for the airline, and the subsidiary will be located in the Redwood City,...

Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc 2015 Full Year Results

Warren East, Chief Executive, said: “In the context of challenging trading conditions our overall performance for the year was in line with the expectations we set out in July 2015. It was a year of considerable change for Rolls-Royce: in our management, in some market conditions and in our near-term outlook. At the same time, there were some important constants: the underlying growth of our...

Boeing is Oversold

The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics — strong fundamentals and a valuation that looks inexpensive. Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) presently has a stellar rank, in the top 10% of the coverage universe, which suggests it is am...

Boeing is plunging after a report that the feds are investigating its accounting

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating Boeing Commercial Airplanes' accounting practices with respect to the company's 787 Dreamliner and 747 jumbo jet programs. According to Bloomberg's Robert Schmidt, Julie Johnsson, and Matt Robinson, people with knowledge of the matter said the SEC was looking into Boeing's projections for the long-term profita...

Southwest Airlines Gives Employees Record $620 Million In 2015 ProfitSharing

Southwest Airlines Co. announced it will share $620 million through its ProfitSharing Plan with its Employees for 2015—equaling approximately 15.6 percent of each eligible Employee’s eligible compensation, or the equivalent of eight weeks’ pay. This $620 million contribution—nearly $1.7 million a day—is the largest total dollar amount Southwest has ever allocated to P...

One of South America's largest airlines halts operation in Venezuela over currency dispute

Brazil's Gol airline announced Tuesday that it has temporarily suspended operations in Venezuela because of the difficulties the company encounters when it tries to send money back to its home country. "Gol temporarily suspended its operations in Caracas, Venezuela until the issue of repatriation of company resources in the country is resolved," the airline said in a statement....

Shareholders oppose easyJet founder over dividend

Shareholders in easyJet have rejected calls by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the carrier’s founder, for the budget airline to boost its dividend, just days before HE plans to stage a protest over its pay-out policy. Sir Stelios, whose family owns almost 34pc of easyJet and so receives the lion’s share of its dividends, has urged the airline to lift its pay-out from 40pc of post-tax prof...

DAE sees 30-35 aircraft deals in 2016, mostly from Iran

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), one of the few Gulf aircraft leasing firms, expects to add 30-35 planes to its current portfolio of 97 with significant demand seen coming from Iran, the company’s chief executive said on Sunday. Iran, which has emerged from years of sanctions that prevented it from legitimately buying aircraft, agreed with European manufacturers last month to purchase up...

Air Arabia profit dives as competition squeezes margin

The Sharjah-based carrier Air Arabia reported a 13 per cent drop in net profit in the fourth quarter, as competition put pressure on margins and a gloomy geopolitical environment weighed on the sector. The only publicly listed airline in the UAE reported a net profit of Dh59 million in the three months to December, compared with Dh68m in the corresponding quarter of 2014. For the full year...

Record profit for India’s Jet Airways

Jet Airways on Saturday posted a record quarterly profit for the three months to the end of December thanks to low fuel prices and high passenger numbers, helped by the success of its strategic partnership with Etihad Airways. The airline declared a net profit of 4.67 billion rupees (Dh252.7 million) for the period, which marked its third consecutive profitable quarter and compares to a profit...

Portugal buys 50 percent of TAP Airline for $2.1 Million

The Associated Press. The Portuguese government says it has agreed to buy 50 percent of the country's carrier TAP Air Portugal for 1.9 million euros ($2.1 million). Speaking after a signing ceremony Saturday, Humberto Pedrosa, who heads the Atlantic Gateway consortium that held 61 percent of the airline, said the deal would leave it holding a 45 percent stake in TAP, with the remainder o...

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Kepplair Evolution accelerates its growth with a new €6 million funding round, bringing the total funding raised to €17.5 million

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