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...That was followed by new safety guidelines in December for the use of autonomous vehicles in public transport....
...“We wanted a package directed towards Americans and funnelled through airlines,” said Sarah Nelson the president of the Association of Flight Attendants....
...It’s more about building the brand and a more complete transport service, he says. “We never need to actually make any profit on scooters . . . We more see them as a critical part of urban transport.”...
...Oscar Munoz, chief executive of United Airlines, was paid US$18.7m last year, while Doug Parker, head of American Airlines, received US$11.1m, the vast majority of which came in stock awards....
...People close to the group say the auction will go ahead....
...Five years into the process, the union between the mostly small, family-controlled, often Greek, shipowners and big, numbers-driven, usually American, private equity firms such as Oaktree and Blackstone...
...A sale of the company would come against a backdrop of steady M&A activity in the industrial, transport and logistics sectors – driven in large part by private equity groups buying and selling businesses...
...But he says the next administration may have to accept the argument for transport fuel choice....
...Bonds in Overseas Shipholding Group, which was forced by debt and plunging international tanker rates to file for bankruptcy protection in November 2012, registered the biggest gains of any high-yield issuer...
...To young people today this is old news: they know that the Americans went to the Moon, just as they know the Romans built straight roads....
...And American Express rose 1.8 per cent to $67.39 on the week after the company’s board authorised the repurchase of up to 150m shares....
...On Friday, Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, said his company had appointed Centerview Partners to advise them on the AMR situation....
...The rejection marked a new level of acrimony in a long-running battle between TNT Express management and a shareholder group led by American hedge fund Jana Partners....
...A group of investors led by the American hedge fund Jana Partners had pressed relentlessly for the break-up, arguing that the spun-off international delivery company TNT Express would be worth more alone...
...Expedia’s rapprochement also deprives other groups in the travel ecosystem, particularly the GDSs – technology companies that collate and distribute airline ticket data – of an influential partner in their...
...American Airlines expires”....
...Meanwhile, consumer groups have condemned American for what they see as an attempt to undermine “price transparency”....
...The three North American groups in the auction – Omers, Carlyle and General Atlantic – decided not to bid while two UK-based groups, CVC and Cinven, submitted non-binding offers....
...In recent weeks another CAC 40 heavyweight has come under siege, this time from Guy Wyser-Pratte, an American activist investor and former marine....
...The French state-controlled electricity group has been seriously put out by the veteran American dealmaker’s bid to take over its US partner, Constellation Energy....
...Investors were bracing themselves for what were expected to be a poor set of earnings from American International Group, due after the closing bell....
...The sector is led by General Electric’s Gecas unit and the ILFC operation owned by American International Group....
...The American stock exchange oil index rose 1.6 per cent....
...Jonathan Guthrie: The complex series of trade offs (local skills v local property prices, for example) implicit in this question make it difficult to answer....
...The group’s second-quarter earnings were hurt by the withdrawal of its hugely popular Vioxx painkiller....
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