- BusinessBloomberg•yesterday
Virgin Hands London-NYC Flight to Delta as Boeing 787s Need Engine Fix
Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. has transferred one of its daily trans-Atlantic flights to U.S. ally Delta Air Lines Inc. so that some of its own Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner planes can be grounded for an engine fix. Delta took over the London Heathrow-New York John F. Kennedy International service Thursday and will operate it until Oct. 31 using older Boeing 767s and possibly 777s. That will allow the Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc Trent 1000 turbines that power Virgin’s Dreamliners to receive attention, according to Craig Kreeger, the U.K. carrier’s chief executive officer. “It’s a substitution that gives us a little bit more resilience as we’ve had some parts issues with our 787 engines,” Kreeger said
- FinanceTheStreet.com•21 hours ago
Ford Really Got Smoked by General Motors, Jim Cramer Says
Barclays analyst Brian Johnson upgraded GM to overweight from equal-weight and boosted his price target to $55 from $41. Conversely, he downgraded Ford to equal-weight from overweight and maintained his $14 price target. "Ford really got left behind," TheStreet's Jim Cramer said on CNBC's "Mad Dash" segment.
- FinanceBusiness Insider•22 hours ago
This Google engineer teaches his coworkers how to fly airplanes ... and it's changed his career in surprising ways
Most companies offer employee training where experts within the company teach their coworkers important work skills. Teaching classes can have a profound impact on the careers of the volunteer employee instructors, Google's aeronautics instructor tells us. When software engineer and private pilot Bowen Zhang joined Google in 2014 he had no intention of becoming a teacher.
