Boeing Aircraft News

Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner, shown in Tokyo earlier this year, is on Kiawah Island today.

But the Chicago-based carrier that combined in 2010 with Continental Airlines to create the world's largest carrier, found three ways Tuesday to change the subject, at least for now.

The low-cost arm of the state-run Air India Ltd flies an all-Boeing 737 fleet and gets 75 per cent of its business from Kerala.

A Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental successfully completed its first test flight this week with a package of performance improvements including enhanced GE engines.

The company has improved its cash costs and thus reduced its cash burn over the coming years, according to UBS , but Boeing will have to push hard if it expects bring those costs down to about $110 million per unit, the point at which it will stop losing money selling Dreamliners.

The group of hedge fund heavyweights, which includes the likes of Carl Icahn , David Einhorn , and Dan Loeb, bet on consumer discretionary, which appeared as the most overweight sector, while LyndoellBasell was the most overweight equity, compared to its weights in the S&P 500.

There aren't many of our readers who are likely to go out and buy a Gulfstream G650, at $60-million-plus per copy, but there are a few, and those few are most likely going to find themselves not in the left or right seat but in one of the seats in back, doing business, spending time with the family or just kicking up their heels and enjoying the ... (more)

United Airlines returned its Dreamliner aircraft to commercial service on Monday after the plane was grounded in January over safety issues regarding on-board batteries.

Company opens satellite kitchen at Stansted Airport and adds new equipment in London and Paris to serve wide-body aircraft.

United Airlines report s Randy Tinseth, VP marketing at Boeing, in his blog. He also says that Boeing expects to make all of this year's planned deliveries despite the battery problems.

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has plans to recruit more than 50 pilots from its partner airline, airberlin.

A Boeing Dreamliner took off Monday - it was a United Airlines flight from Houston to Chicago.

's stock had its "overweight" rating reiterated by investment analysts at JPMorgan Chase in a note issued to investors on Monday, AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports.

Dreaming Again Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner , no longer grounded for safety concerns, returned to America's airways today.

The vertical tail wing of the first Airbus A350 is seen on the final assembly line in Toulouse, southwestern France, in this October 23, 2012 file photo.

One reader asks if it's possible for an onboard computer to be hacked by a phone.

3. -- U.S. stocks on Friday closed higher after a consumer confidence gauge reached a post-crisis high and an upbeat report on U.S. economic activity bolstered the outlook for the world's largest economy.

Part of an airliner carrying about 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide.

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner got off to a rough start. Just over a year after its first commercial flight, the aircraft was grounded after batteries overheated on two flights.

The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines.