The planned divestiture of American Airlines' regional operator,
American Eagle wasn't enough to satisfy an investment company
pushing the airline to increase shareholder value.
Bombardier Inc. said this week that it will increase production
due to stronger deliveries of aircraft and posting a 23 percent
rise in quarterly profits. Bombardier, named Pierre Beaudoin as
president and chief executive effective June 4 to the world's
third-largest civil aircraft maker and the number one manufacturer
of trains.
A Portuguese oil company, Galp Energia, says it will build a
plant to make diesel fuel from vegetable oils. Output will be 6,500
barrels a day, using a refining process much like that used for
petroleum.
A shake-up at Delta Air Lines of its operations executives has a
former Northwest Airline executive Stephen Gorman replacing Joe
Kolshak. Gorman who was once in charge of operation and maintenance
at Northwest Airlines comes to Delta from Greyhound Lines. Kolshak,
50, is retiring after 20 years at Delta, according to the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
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