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The Bombardier plant in Belfast is “a living legacy of a British and Protestant industrial world that shaped unionism itself”. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Fintan O'Toole: Foster’s delight at the saving of Bombardier jobs has turned to indifference

Forget the Border and the backstop for a moment. Think Bombardier – that huge plant you pass on the way to Belfast City Airport, just east of Harland (...)

Union leaders have warned that a no-deal Brexit could leave aerospace workers, such as Bombardier’s employees in Belfast, vulnerable. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
NI companies escalate no-deal Brexit contingency plans

Northern Ireland companies have started issuing protective notices to staff as they escalate their no-deal Brexit contingency plans against the backdr(...)

The first electric flight across the English Channel took place three years ago, in an Airbus E-Fan prototype aircraft.
Electric propulsion slowly wings its way to aviation

That electric power is coming, on a mass scale, to motoring is pretty much now taken for granted. Battery and electric motor technology has advanced i(...)

UK prime minister Theresa May: the real challenge will be getting a majority of MPs in the House of Commons to back her deal. Photograph: Adrian Dennis / AFP
Theresa May finds new friends in Brussels as mood darkens at home

UK prime minister Theresa May travels to Brussels this weekend where it is hoped the withdrawal deal agreed with EU negotiators will get political app(...)

Bombardier workers in Belfast protesting at a US International Trade Commission decision earlier this year to impose tariffs on Bombardier aircraft in the US. Photograph: PA Wire
Bombardier to cut almost 500 jobs in the North

Bombardier is to cut nearly 500 jobs in Belfast, with fears growing for the group’s remaining workforce in the North. The aerospace group said the co(...)

Bombardier factory in Belfast: Canadian aerospace giant which employs more than 4,000 people in the city says the UK’s draft withdrawal agreement is an “important step forward”. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne
Top NI hotelier calls for debate on second Brexit vote

The draft Brexit agreement is “better than crashing out” of the European Union but “not as good as remaining in it”, says Northern hotelier Howar(...)

An Airbus A350-1000 Xwb (back) and an Airbus A321neo are seen on static display during the 52nd Paris Air Show. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Airbus says tougher to meet jet delivery goal after snags

European planemaker Airbus softened its key target for jet deliveries on Wednesday and warned that reaching it would be a “greater stretch” after a se(...)

Trade union bosses claim workers at Bombardier’s five sites in the North are worried about the group’s “continued outsourcing and offshoring of jobs and functions”
Union bosses at Bombardier concerned over outsourcing at five sites in North

Trade union bosses in Northern Ireland claim workers at Bombardier’s five sites in the North are worried about the group’s “continued outsourcing and (...)

The Bombardier Aerospace plant in Belfast. The company has warned that stockpiling parts to mitigate the impact of a no-deal Brexit could cost the Belfast unit £30m. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Bombardier may have to stockpile parts in North under no-deal Brexit

Contracts awarded by Bombardier’s Belfast operations to suppliers in Ireland and the UK topped £200 million (€224m) last year, according to the Canadi(...)

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond (second left) meets local MPs and business leaders during his visit to the Magee campus of Ulster University in Derry. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Block on east-west border ‘non-negotiable’, says Hammond

Preventing an “east-west border” between Northern Ireland and Britain is as non-negotiable for the UK in the Brexit talks as avoiding a “North-South” (...)

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