JetBlue to build airport lounges in New York, Boston

JetBlue to build airport lounges in New York, Boston

JetBlue planes at JFK’s Terminal 5 in New York. Leslie Josephs | CNBC JetBlue Airways will open its first airport lounges in its more than two decades of flying, a major shift for the low-cost airline as it chases high-spending travelers. The lounges will open at the carrier’s hubs in New York late next year … Read more

Boeing starts furloughing ‘large number’ of employees amid strike

Boeing starts furloughing ‘large number’ of employees amid strike

Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.  M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing will furlough a “large number” of U.S. executives, managers and other staff, citing the ongoing machinist strike as the company races to preserve cash, … Read more

Intuitive Machines stock soars 50% after NASA moon satellite contract

Intuitive Machines stock soars 50% after NASA moon satellite contract

The company’s IM-1 mission lander shortly after launching on Feb. 15, 2024. Intuitive Machines Intuitive Machines‘ stock jumped in early trading Wednesday after NASA awarded the lunar-focused company a major contract to build moon data satellites. “This contract marks an inflection point in Intuitive Machines’ leadership in space communications and navigation,” Intuitive Machines CEO Steve … Read more

Alaska-Hawaiian airline merger clears DOT review

Alaska-Hawaiian airline merger clears DOT review

Boeing 737-790 aircraft belonging to Alaska Airlines is seen flying at Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, United States on July 2, 2024.  Hasan Akbas | Anadolu | Getty Images Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines can go through with their planned merger, but they must maintain the value of their airline reward systems … Read more

SpaceX Starlink has 2,500 airplanes under contract

SpaceX Starlink has 2,500 airplanes under contract

A Starlink terminal installed on a Hawaiian Airlines aircraft. Hawaiian Airlines PARIS — SpaceX nearly doubled its backlog of Starlink in-flight Wi-Fi orders with last week’s United Airlines deal, a company director said Tuesday. “Very excited that we have about 2,500 aircraft under contract now, bringing what was effectively a startup to now what we … Read more

UAW union filed unfair labor charges against Stellantis

UAW union filed unfair labor charges against Stellantis

United Automobile Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024.  Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union on Monday said it had filed federal unfair labor practice charges against … Read more

Boeing freezes hiring in sweeping cost cuts as it grapples with strike

Boeing starts furloughing ‘large number’ of employees amid strike

Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.  M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing announced sweeping cost cuts on Monday, including a hiring freeze, a pause on nonessential staff travel and a reduction on supplier spending to preserve … Read more

Why the European Union’s tariffs on Chinese automakers may not work

Why the European Union’s tariffs on Chinese automakers may not work

By the end of October, the European Union will make a final decision on what some analysts call the biggest EU trade case against China in more than a decade. But automakers and countries are divided over whether to place tariffs — so far of up to 36.3% — on Chinese electric vehicles. A German … Read more

Strike will ‘jeopardize’ recovery, hit aircraft production

Strike will ‘jeopardize’ recovery, hit aircraft production

Union members hold picket signs during a news conference following a vote count on the union contract at the IAM District 751 Main Union Hall in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024.  M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing CFO Brian West said a labor strike that began Friday will hurt … Read more

United Airlines to offer free Wi-Fi using SpaceX’s Starlink

United Airlines to offer free Wi-Fi using SpaceX’s Starlink

A United Airlines Boeing 737-MAX 8 aircraft departs at San Diego International Airport en route to New York on August 24, 2024 in San Diego, California.  Kevin Carter | Getty Images United Airlines said Friday that it plans to offer inflight Wi-Fi from SpaceX’s Starlink for free on its hundreds of jetliners, the biggest inflight … Read more