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The drumbeat for breaking up Honeywell International Inc., which makes products in the aerospace, energy and industrial automation industries, has...
The Federal Aviation Administration held an event at a business aircraft conference in October to unveil 880 pages of regulations for electric-powered...
A true win-win-win situation doesn’t come along often. One could be brewing with a Boeing Co. decision to look at a potential sale — or perhaps...
Kelly Ortberg, the chief executive officer of Boeing Co., on Wednesday morning had his first earnings conference call with analysts, who heard him lay...
The gap between the haves and have-nots in the US airline industry is only growing. Delta Air Lines Inc., which reported third-quarter earnings on...
For those fearful that artificial intelligence and robots are going to eventually replace everyone’s job, the logistics industry offers a case study...
The port strike along the East and Gulf coasts, as expected, didn’t last long. The only surprise is that the two sides worked out an agreement...
While a strike by East Coast port workers is strangling the flow of goods from Maine to Texas and grabbing headlines, news of machinists at Boeing Co....
The much-anticipated labor strike at ports along the East and Gulf coasts has begun, and the impact is a bit anticlimactic — for now. Retailers,...
Southwest Airlines Co.’s Chief Executive Officer Bob Jordan did his best on Thursday to put a nail in the coffin on activist Elliott Investment...
Boeing Co.’s labor negotiators should have paid more attention to how Carol Tomé, the chief executive officer of United Parcel Service Inc.,...
East Coast port operators and carriers will have to pay up to head off a strike on Oct. 1, the day after the expiration of a six-year contract with...
In a pre-pandemic throwback to when interest rates were in free-money territory and before heated geopolitics made resilience a boardroom buzzword,...
The US freight railroads have not been increasing the amount of cargo they haul for the past two decades, and that’s a problem because there is...
The long-haul trucking industry doesn’t offer robust, steady growth that entices investors to buy a stock and just sit on it. The industry has bull...
It’s hard to overstate the damage that a machinists strike could do to Boeing Co. and, more important, to the planemaker’s fragile supply chain....
Bob Jordan, Southwest Airlines Co.’s chief executive officer, has kept his job amid the activist onslaught from Elliott Investment Management, the...
It was once a competitive disadvantage not to manufacture in China. The country joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, reducing barriers for...
It takes great skill in managing assets and planning long term to succeed as an ocean freight carrier. New ships are expensive, take several years to...
So, you’re really going to fly on Labor Day weekend? The typical advice is to arm yourself with patience and prepare for the worst. After all,...
Bombardier Inc.’s bumpy ride over the last several years has settled into a smooth flight with much clearer skies ahead. Investors shared the...
The driverless trucking revolution will start with a whimper this year and, if Aurora Innovation Inc. is successful, it will stay that way. Aurora is...
The general public’s direct interaction with the US Postal Service has been declining for decades now. How many young people have mailed a letter or...
FedEx Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Raj Subramaniam seems to be making all the right moves in his push to transform the courier after taking over...
Ted Christie, the chief executive officer of Spirit Airlines Inc., is gambling his company’s future on a rebranding that is designed to pick up new...
Boeing Co. reported on Wednesday that its sales plunged 15% in the second quarter from a year earlier and that it burned through $4.3 billion of cash....
Stuck in Space! That’s what some headlines are screaming about Boeing Co.’s latest setback with its Starliner capsule. It’s a storyline that...
Southwest Airlines Co. will begin assigning passengers seats when they buy tickets. This is a monumental change for an airline that carved out a large...
The aviation gods seem to be easily provoked by boastful airline executives. That’s the colorful explanation for why Delta Air Lines Inc. was dealt...
When companies or policymakers try to force green technology onto an industry, it usually doesn’t work out. It’s akin to forcing on footwear...
There’s a new-found religion in the US airline industry, and investors should be thrilled. It’s called discipline. Carriers added too much...
An animal that’s cornered and fighting for its life is at its most dangerous. The same goes for airlines. Low-cost carriers, including Frontier...
Vimal Kapur is on a roll. The chief executive officer of Honeywell International Inc. on Wednesday announced his fourth major acquisition in eight...
Like a bad nightmare, some of the same dreaded supply-chain terminology heard during the pandemic is being bandied about again — congestion, delays,...
The fallout keeps coming from a door plug that blew off a Boeing Co. 737 Max plane in midair during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. Bloomberg...
The US trucking market, which has been in recession for more than a year now, is poised to recover … at some unknowable point in the future....
FedEx Corp. dropped a bomb on the market Tuesday afternoon with the announcement that it will study the sale of its freight unit. Investors seemed to...
Help wanted: A dynamic, self-motivated aerospace executive with experience in lean, high-quality manufacturing and proven leadership skills at turning...
In the 1960s and 1970s, airliners crashed into mountainsides and the ground at alarming rates. Not much is heard these days about these types of...
Delta Air Lines Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. have posted solid profits coming out of the pandemic. The rest of the US carriers, including...
Artificial intelligence is sweeping across the economy. It’s showing up in the stock market with Nvidia’s meteoric rise, and the marketing blitz...
It wasn’t a surprise that Boeing Co.’s launch of its CST-100 Starliner capsule was postponed on Saturday. It would have been the company’s first...
The post-pandemic surge of demand for premium air travel is where large carriers are making their money, and American Airlines Group Inc. is missing...
Physical infrastructure — highways, bridges, ports, internet servers, potable water — provides the backbone of an economy, even in an increasingly...
The fever to break up multi-industry companies remains at maximum temperature with DuPont de Nemours Inc. announcing that it will split into three...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has struggled for more than a decade while a couple of its competitors — Bridgestone Corp. and Cie Generale des...
The low-cost airline carriers can’t seem to stop bleeding a lot of cash. Like all airlines, Spirit Airlines Inc., Frontier Group Holding Inc. and...
Most people have seen robots in human form. The Hollywood version has starred in movies for decades. Now there are videos on the internet of real...
Norfolk Southern Corp. Chief Executive Officer Alan Shaw won the day at the railroad’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, beating back a...
Here’s a conversation starter ahead of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s annual meeting on Saturday: Warren Buffett should buy Boeing Co. The idea may...