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The airline said its profit is rising despite surging jet fuel costs.

The British jet-engine maker expects to have its first flying taxi, EVTOL, ready within the next few years.

Rising oil prices and interest rates, trade tensions and uncertainty over Britain's departure from the European Union all pose a risk to an eight-year boom in civil aviation, which has boosted industry order books and share prices.

The order will double the size of DHL's 777 fleet.

Washington recently imposed 25-percent tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese imports, and Beijing responded with tariffs on the same amount of U.S. exports to China.

It's been five years since Detroit bottomed out after decades of decline, admitting in the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy filing ever that the country's one-time industrial engine could no longer pay its bills.

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy is now offering an academic program in cyber systems, its first new major in a quarter century.

A $13 billion project to build a new rail tunnel into New York is scrambling to stay in the running for key federal funding as a July 14 deadline looms.

A government watchdog says a federal inspector overseeing American Airlines was too cozy with the carrier and did not respond to safety complaints raised by the pilots' union.

Delta is topping most profit expectations for the second-quarter, but it's slashing its outlook for the year, citing a $2 billion spike in fuel costs.

The No.2 U.S. carrier slashed its full-year earnings outlook to a range of $5.35 to $5.70 per share from $6.35 to $6.70 per share and said it expected its fuel bill in 2018 to surge by $2 billion.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on a mission to salvage business deals threatened by a tariff war, says Chinese officials expressed confidence during his visit to Beijing that they can survive the spiraling dispute with Washington.

Other airline stocks slumped Wednesday as well.

___ Stuck in trade war, US and China face uncertain path to deal WASHINGTON (AP) — As the trade war between the world's two largest economies nears the end of its first week, its most unsettling fact may be this: No one seems to foresee any clear path to peace.

A national trucking industry group is fighting Rhode Island over new tolls arguing that large commercial tractors are being unfairly targeted.

The Cuban government will allow new restaurants, bed-and-breakfasts and transportation businesses by the end of the year, reopening the most vibrant sectors of the private economy after freezing growth for more than a year.

An American Airlines flight from Chicago to Tokyo was forced to return to O'Hare International Airport due to a cracked windshield.

New Zealand's transport minister says he will pay a small fine for violating aviation rules by making a cellphone call from a plane.