BA and Virgin seen settling U.S. claims
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British Airways  and Virgin Atlantic  have agreed to pay passengers around $204 million to settle U.S. claims they conspired to fix fuel surcharges on transatlantic routes, the Financial Times said.
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Virgin Group and up to two other bidders are expected to meet a Monday deadline for Northern Rock offers.
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Virgin America Airlines, the low-cost carrier with ties to British entrepreneur Richard Branson, received its operating license on Wednesday from U.S. aviation authorities and announced plans to sell tickets.
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Oil major BP will pay $373 million to settle U.S. charges stemming from a deadly Texas refinery explosion and an Alaska oil spill, as well as allegations it manipulated propane markets, the government said on Thursday.
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HOUSTON - BP PLC has agreed to settle claims by four victims of an explosion in 2005 at its Texas refinery, ending the first trial over the disaster. The terms weren't disclosed.
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Drugmaker Wyeth WYE.N has reached a  tentative framework with a group of plaintiffs' lawyers to  settle nearly all remaining liability cases stemming from  allegations that some of its diet drugs damaged heart valves,  the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people  familiar with the negotiations.
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- As of Thursday afternoon, US Airways and the pilotâs union have not reached a proposal agreement. An agreement is believed to be reached within the next 24 to 48 hours, a union spokesman said.
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Michael Jackson on Monday settled a breach-of-contract suit brought by a financial firm that claimed to have brokered the deal that allowed him to avoid default on more than $270 million in loans last year.
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MIAMI There&#39;s word of a tentative settlement in a case brought by Holocaust survivors against the US government for the plundering of a Nazi gold train in World War Two.
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U.S. passenger records of the American carrier to be outsourced to the Emirate.
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Australia's Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd.   said on Tuesday it was close to signing an order for  new Boeing  planes worth up to US$2.6 billion ahead of  the launch of long-haul flights to the United States next year.
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LONDON-September 27, 2004 - A ticket may soon be all that separates you from a dream voyage to the final frontier. British entrepreneur Richard Branson says Virgin company plans to start offering commercial space flights over the next few years.
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US Airways reached a tentative agreement with the leaders of its pilots union on $300 million in annual concessions yesterday, a deal that would result in the pilots
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - The European Union and the United States agreed Tuesday to settle their Airbus-Boeing aircraft subsidy dispute through bilateral talks and not challenge each other at the World Trade Organization.
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Negotiators have reached an agreement on how to transfer information about passengers flying to the U.S. from Europe.
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HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--UK-based conglomerate Virgin Group Ltd. (VGN.YY) is in talks with a Chinese telecom company to set up a 50-50 joint venture to provide mobile phone services in China, Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson said Tuesday.
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When the first space vacations are available, Richard Branson will be there selling them. On Sept. 27, Branson&#39;s Virgin announced a partnership with Paul Allen&#39;s Mojave Aerospace Ventures and SpaceShipOne