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Bombardier said its overall revenue increased 28% to $1.86 billion as it delivered six more business jets in the quarter compared with a year earlier

Bombardier Q3 results beat on strong private jet demand

Canada's Bombardier has today reported third-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates, helped by robust demand for its pricier business jets and aftermarket services, sending shares up 9% in early trade.

Business • 02 Nov 23

Bombardier has reported a 43% increase in quarterly adjusted profit

Bombardier profit jumps as wealthy travelers return

Canada's Bombardier has today reported a 43% increase in quarterly adjusted profit, helped by a recovery in business aviation, as rising Covid-19 vaccinations encourage wealthy travelers to fly again.

Business • 06 May 21

Canada's Bombardier is the latest aerospace group to face scrutiny over the use of middlemen

Bombardier faces UK bribery probe over plane sales

The UK Serious Fraud Office is investigating Canadian industrial group Bombardier over suspected bribery in airplane sales to Garuda Indonesia, widening a global anti-corruption drive in aerospace.

Business • 06 Nov 20

Bombardier has today missed estimates for its third-quarter profit

Bombardier misses profit target as pandemic hits orders

Plane and train maker Bombardier has today missed estimates for third-quarter profit, hurt by weak performance in its aviation and transportation units due to coronavirus-led disruptions.

Business • 05 Nov 20

Over 50 firefighters were involved in extinguishing the blaze in Belfast

Fire at NI Bombardier plant being treated as accidental

A fire at the Bombardier Aerospace plant in Belfast last night is being treated as accidental.

Ulster • 25 May 20

Bombardier stops production in Northern Ireland and Canada until April

Bombardier halts production in Northern Ireland

Bombardier said it has decided to stop production temporarily at all its Northern Ireland sites until April 20 due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

Business • 24 Mar 20

Bombardier's Belfast plant produces wings for Airbus's A220 jet

Bombardier's Belfast operations sold to Spirit

Aircraft manufacturer Bombardier's Northern Ireland operations have been sold to US firm Spirit AeroSystems.

Business • 31 Oct 19

Bombardier is one of the biggest employers in Northern Ireland

Bombardier to sell off its Belfast business

The Canadian aircraft manufacturing company Bombardier has announced plans to sell its aerostructures business in Belfast, where it employs around 3,600 workers.

Business • 02 May 19

Last November the company announced that almost 500 jobs were to go in Northern Ireland

Bombardier suspends compulsory redundancies

Aircraft company Bombardier is to suspend compulsory redundancies at its Northern Ireland plants.

Ulster • 29 Apr 19

Michael Ryan, the head of Bombardier's Belfast plant, said the backstop laid out in the deal is a workable arrangement that he could live with if necessary

Belfast plane plant boss backs Brexit backstop plan

The boss of Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturer has said he was backing Theresa May's Brexit plan.

Business • 29 Nov 18

The company said it needs to continue cutting costs

490 jobs to go at Bombardier in Northern Ireland

Almost 500 jobs are to be lost at aircraft manufacturer Bombardier in Northern Ireland.

Ulster • 21 Nov 18

British Chancellor Phillip Hammond meets apprentices during a visit to the Bombardier factory in Belfast

£12m funding for Bombardier to secure Belfast jobs

Plane manufacturer Bombardier will receive almost £12 million of new British government funding to secure jobs at its Belfast factory.

Business • 25 Jul 18

The wings of the Bombardier C Series jets are made in Belfast

Bombardier wins trade dispute case in US

Aircraft manufacturer Bombardier has won its case against US proposals to impose tariffs of 292% on its imports to America.

Ulster • 26 Jan 18

Bombardier in Belfast employs about 1,000 people linked to the C-Series

NI job fears over 300% import duty facing Bombardier

Union leaders are warning that hundreds of jobs are under threat in Belfast because of a decision by the United States to impose duties on imports of Bombardier C series commercial jets.

Northern Ireland • 21 Dec 17

Canada drops plans to buy 18 Boeing jets

Canada scraps plans to buy Boeing jets

Canada has scrapped plans to buy 18 Boeing jets and made clear the company had little chance of winning a much larger contract unless it dropped a trade challenge against Bombardier.

Business • 13 Dec 17

Today's job cuts are the latest in a series of redundancies at Bombardier

500 jobs to be lost at two firms in North

Five hundred jobs are to be lost in Northern Ireland with the closure of an oil field services company in Co Antrim and the latest in a series of job cuts at aerospace firm Bombardier.

Ireland • 26 Oct 17

A deal agreed this week gives Airbus a majority stake in Bombardier's troubled CSeries jetliner programme

Boeing says Bombardier jets may still face hefty duties

Boeing has said that Bombardier's CSeries jets could still be hit with high US import duties, even if they are assembled in Alabama through an industry-changing deal with Airbus.

Business • 18 Oct 17

Airbus and Bombardier say the deal will allow significant savings on the C-Series production

Airbus enters C-Series partnership with Bombardier

European aerospace giant Airbus will take a majority stake in Bombardier's marquee C-Series airliner programme.

Airbus • 17 Oct 17

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said it wasn't an easy conversation to have with Donald Trump

Trudeau raises Bombardier-Boeing trade row with Trump

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has raised the trade row between Bombardier and its US rival Boeing during a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House.

Bombardier • 12 Oct 17

Bombardier workers are pressing for British government action to help secure their jobs

Bombardier workers urge MPs to defend their jobs

Workers from the Belfast plant of Bombardier unveiled a giant banner outside the Houses of Parliament, as they urge MPs from all parties to defend their jobs in the face of an ongoing trade dispute with the US.

Ireland • 11 Oct 17

Bombardier employs more than 4,000 people at its Belfast factories

Bombardier now facing 300% duty for US imports

One of Northern Ireland's largest employers is facing a proposed 300% duty on its exports of planes to the US amid an international trade dispute, the US government said last night.

Ireland • 07 Oct 17

Bombardier is Northern Ireland's largest manufacturing employer

Coveney presses US over Bombardier-Boeing trade row

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has raised concerns with the US Commerce Secretary over the potential impact the Bombardier-Boeing trade dispute could have on Northern Ireland's peace process.

News • 04 Oct 17

The US has slapped a preliminary 220% tariff on Bombardier's CSeries jets, whose wings are made in Belfast

UK will lobby US, Canada over Bombardier row - Hammond

UK finance minister Philip Hammond said Britain would continue to lobby the US over a trade dispute with Canadian planemaker Bombardier, but said there were limits to what it could achieve.

Business • 02 Oct 17

Boeing claimed Bombardier had been unfairly subsidised by the British and Canadian governments

DUP to 'use influence' over UK govt in Bombardier row

DUP leader Arlene Foster has said that her party would seek to use its influence over the British government in the Bombardier dispute.

Ireland • 27 Sep 17

Boeing claims Bombardier received unfair state subsidies

US trade dispute finding could hit thousands of NI jobs

The US Department of Commerce is due to issue its preliminary finding today on a trade dispute which could threaten thousands of Northern Irish jobs.

Ireland • 26 Sep 17