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3 days ago | businessinsider.com | Will Martin |Pete Syme |Henry Blodget

Airbus shares rose more than 3% on Wednesday after a report that Chinese airlines are considering ordering hundreds of planes from the European firm. Bloomberg reported that a deal could involve between 200 and 500 narrow-body and wide-body aircraft. The order could be placed as soon as next month when European leaders visit Beijing, but the negotiations may take longer or fall apart. Airbus declined to comment on Bloomberg's report when contacted by Business Insider.

3 days ago | businessinsider.com | Chris Johnston |Pete Syme |Henry Blodget

United Airlines flight attendants are set for big pay increases under the terms of a tentative agreement. The United branch of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA reached a tentative deal with the airline on May 23. The first details of the deal were published on Tuesday. It states that cabin crew members would receive pay increases up to 45.6% over the contract's five-year timeframe.

3 days ago | businessinsider.com | Pete Syme |Henry Blodget

Airlines, labor unions, and manufacturers have written to senators warning that a bill about credit cards being proposed by senators could damage the aviation industry by weakening airline loyalty programs. United Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Airbus, and Boeing are among the signatories of Monday's letter. The campaign, led by the trade group Airlines for America, takes aim at legislation proposed by Senators Roger Marshall and Dick Durbin.

4 days ago | businessinsider.com | Will Martin |Pete Syme |Henry Blodget

Passengers expecting to travel transatlantic ended up on a four-hour flight-to-nowhere. Swiss International Airlines Flight 64 on Monday was supposed to be a 10-hour journey from Zurich to Miami. Passengers were already in for some disruption as it departed around an hour later than scheduled, per data from Flightradar24. Things went smoothly until an hour and a half into the journey, when the Airbus A340 started to turn around.

5 days ago | businessinsider.com | Will Martin |Pete Syme |Henry Blodget

A Southwest Airlines flight had to divert after a passenger's battery charger started to smoke, the day after the airline introduced new rules for devices. Thursday's Flight 1844, from Baltimore to Tampa, took off around 6 p.m.However, data from Flightradar24 shows how an hour into the journey, the Boeing 737 made an abrupt right-hand turn.