CHICAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - United Airlines said on Monday it expects to have its entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners back in service this week, as the airline's first flight with the new jetliner in four months landed safely in Chicago.

PARIS, May 20 (Reuters) - Airbus could steal the Paris air show with a flypast of its newest passenger jet, the A350, as confidence grows over a maiden flight some four weeks away.

Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading system.

KUWAIT, May 16 (Reuters) - State-owned Kuwait Airways said it had signed an initial agreement with Airbus to buy 25 new aircraft and take an option on 10 more in the biggest overhaul of its fleet since the 1990 Iraqi invasion.

KUWAIT, May 16 (Reuters) - State-owned Kuwait Airways said on Thursday it had signed a "letter of acceptance" with Airbus to buy 25 new aircraft and take an option on 10 more.

NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Qatar Airways has no interest in buying a 12 percent stake in British Airways parent International Airlines Group from Spanish bank Bankia, the chief executive of Qatar Air said on Wednesday.

KUWAIT, May 15 (Reuters) - Kuwait's state-owned Kuwait Airways has picked Airbus to provide new jets because their bid was the best value for money, the country's transport minister was quoted as saying.

LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - Low-cost airline easyJet roughly halved its losses in the first half, helped by Easter falling earlier than a year ago and strong bookings from customers wanting to escape recent cold weather in Britain and Northern Europe.

PARIS, May 14 (Reuters) - Core profit at Airbus parent EADS rose sharply in the first quarter after the passenger jet maker raised output of its most profitable planes, eclipsing weakness at EADS's helicopter division.

PARIS, May 14 (Reuters) - Core profit at Airbus parent EADS rose sharply in the first quarter on higher output of its most profitable civil jets, but the aerospace group said it had consumed a significant quantity of cash to boost inventories for new projects.

Kuwait is studying plans by its airline to buy 25 Airbus jets, a source with knowledge of the matter said, in the most sweeping overhaul since part of its fleet was seized after Iraq invaded the Gulf state in 1990.

China's decision to ease a boycott of some $11 billion in Airbus jet orders followed a high-level appeal from the planemaker urging Beijing to recognize its support over a trade row with Europe, a letter seen by Reuters shows.

State-run Kuwait Airways will spend 850 million dinars ($2.

KUWAIT, May 12 (Reuters) - State-run Kuwait Airways will spend 850 million dinars ($2.98 billion) on 25 new Airbus jets and aims to lease a further 13 to upgrade its ageing fleet, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Sunday.

May 9 (Reuters) - Bombardier Inc said on Thursday its CSeries jetliner was on track to make its first flight in June, and the world's No. 4 commercial aircraft maker reported a 4 percent rise in first-quarter adjusted profit.

LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Turkish Airlines will look at both Boeing's new 777X aircraft and Airbus's A350-1000 jets, CEO Temel Kotil said on Thursday.

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* Program would be third attempt to replace current aircraft