Lufthansa declines to comment on reported Iberia tie-up
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German flag-carrier Lufthansa declined to comment Thursday on a French newspaper report which said that it was in discussions on a possible acquisition of &quot;all or part&quot; of Spanish airline Iberia.
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PARIS -- Lufthansa and Emirates said Tuesday that their orders for A380 superjumbos will be delayed by up to a further year, and Airbus parent EADS was expected to reveal the full extent of production problems holding back its flagship jet program.
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The German government rejected a magazine report on Saturday that France was blocking a German consortium from taking over a stake in aerospace group EADS  from core shareholder DaimlerChrysler .
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Defence and aerospace group BAE Systems declines to comment on a report that it may sell its 20% stake in Airbus later this week.
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Aircraft maker Airbus  on Thursday denied a report it was siding with Microsoft  in its anti-trust battle with the European Union.
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Defence and aerospace group BAE Systems declines to comment on a report that it will sell its 20% stake in Airbus later this week.
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Lufthansa had to cancel 33 European flights, and services across its global network were delayed, following a computer fault in its check-in system on Thursday, the airline said.
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European leaders have been making false claims in a commercial-aircraft trade dispute pitting Boeing Co.  against its Europe-based rival Airbus, a U.S. senator close to Boeing said on Thursday.
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French-Dutch airline Air France KLM  is planning to team up with two Spanish firms to bid for Spain's Iberia  against a group led by private equity group TPG, Expansion newspaper said on Wednesday.
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The announcement that JetBlue, the struggling discount carrier, sold a 19 percent stake in its business to Lufthansa of Germany for $300 million Thursday, seemed to leave many analysts scratching their heads. "It's not clear to us what Lufthansa gains from such a transaction," William J. Greene, a Morgan Stanley analyst, wrote in a research note. [...].
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Lufthansa is in talks to buy a stake of  just under 25 percent in JetBlue Airways , The New York  Times reported on its blog DealBook on Thursday.
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Airbus on Monday postponed a major announcement on job cuts planned for Tuesday, saying European nations could not agree how to share the work on the planemaker's next aircraft, the wide-body A350.
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MUNICH, Germany  - European aircraft maker Airbus   EAD.PA said a newspaper report that it was set to announce   fresh delays to deliveries of its A380 super jumbo was   speculation and that checks into the issue were not yet over.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. may be willing to give some ground in a dispute with European regulators over access to trans-Atlantic passenger data, although reaching a compromise before a July deadline remains uncertain. The issue of how long the U.S. holds onto passenger data has been one of the sticking points in the dispute, which threatens airlines' ability to carry passengers to the U.S. without violating U.S. or European law. "I anticipate that there may well be a decrease, and perhaps even a significant decrease, in the amount of time [the passenger data] is retained," said Hugo Teufel III, chief privacy officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in a meeting with journalists in Paris on Thursday. The U.S. requires airlines to hand over 34 facts about each passenger traveling from Europe, including where and how their airline ticket was purchased. The U.S. says it needs the information to help identify terrorism suspects, but some European regulators have fiercely opposed sharing their citizens' data, citing concerns about privacy. A 2004 agreement on the matter was struck down by the European Court of Justice earlier this year, and an interim agreement will expire on July 31. If a new accord isn't reached before then over the "passenger name records" (PNRs), airlines face being sued in Europe for sharing the data, or being denied landing permission in the U.S. if they do not. "I believe that there will very likely be increased privacy protections with respect to the PNR data," Teufel said on Thursday. "Whether it happens before the end of July or after the end of July is very difficult to say." He cautioned that he is not directly involved in the discussions, and would not elaborate on what the increased privacy protections might be. It was unclear if the concessions had been communicated to the European Union or would prompt it to ease its position. European parliamentarians have also expressed other concerns with the PNR system, including the amount of data being collected and the ways it will be used. A spokesman for Franco Frattini, the E.U.'s commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, said it would be inappropriate to comment on Teufel's remarks while the talks are ongoing. "We are in the midst of negotiations," the spokesman said via e-mail. Teufel is a political appointee responsible for privacy policies at the Department of Homeland Security. He was in Europe to meet with privacy representatives in France and Germany to gather feedback and smooth relations between the two sides. He sought to dispel what he characterized as misinformation about the PNR system. The U.S. does not ask about meal choices to identify potential Muslim travelers, he said, calling that "absolutely false." Asked if credit card data is collected, he said: "To my knowledge the department is not pushing for that." He acknowledged theÂ divisions between U.S. and European attitudes to privacy. "I think Europeans are beginning to have a better understanding of U.S. privacy and U.S. privacy laws. I don't think Europeans as a whole have a sufficient understanding now," he said. "I am not surprised when I hear from a European their often-held view that the U.S. has no privacy laws. That's just false. We do have privacy laws, we care about privacy. What we do have is a different approach to privacy and a different approach to government."
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Authorities are silent on why a group of passengers were arrested in Amsterdam despite no change in the Dutch terror threat level
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Airbus on Monday postponed a major announcement on job cuts planned for Tuesday, saying European nations could not agree how to share the work on the planemaker's next aircraft, the wide-body A350.Comment
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Five European countries are refusing  landing rights to aircraft from the Israeli national carrier El  Al that are transporting military equipment to the Jewish  state, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday.