But Boeing, worrying about a backlash among its airline customers and suppliers who build for both airline makers, could be reluctant to encourage such an action.
The airline's maker, Boeing, has said that it has now identified and found a fix for the battery fault.
The new law gave airlines, steel makers and other companies the option to defer pension funding during the subsequent two years.
The benefits of competition between European airlines, car makers, energy firms, banks, chemical companies and the rest have all, at various times, been dissipated by governments that have merrily bailed out losers.
THE big complaint against many troubled American firms these days from airlines to makers of car parts—is how they use bankruptcy to weasel out of pension promises and union contracts.
As a rule of thumb, economists say a $10 decline in the price of a barrel of oil increases economic growth 0.2 to 0.3 percentage points, helping many businesses dependent on oil, like airlines and makers of plastics and fertilizers.
If the complaint is legitimate, the retailer, airline or appliance maker may respond.
The seven other picks from our newsletter editors were as varied as a mortgage lender, an airline, a steel maker and a pharmaceutical.
As with the earlier British Airways accident, the firm's name is being mentioned as prominently in coverage of the Qantas incident as those of the airline and aircraft-maker.
The two-day event, which opens July 19, is one of the largest aerospace showcases where plane makers, airline executives and military officials from around the world gather to sign lucrative deals.
With this kind of activity, the airplane maker Boeing has recommended that airlines using foreign pilots need to "be aggressive in creating their own pool of pilots".
