Airbus has called for financial compensation to take on money-losing operations from Spirit AeroSystems, a demand that has emerged as one obstacle to a tie-up deal between the supplier and its main customer Boeing, people familiar with the matter said. Spirit and Airbus executives are holding talks in New York, first reported by Bloomberg, to try and work through issues such as the European planemaker's demands for financial compensation to take on the supplier's loss-making operations.
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Canadian legislators on Wednesday agreed to hold hearings into how major aerospace companies were granted exemptions from the country's sanctions on Russian titanium. Canada is the first Western government to ban Russian supplies of the strategic metal as part of a package to mark the second anniversary of Russia's Ukraine invasion in February. The 12-person foreign affairs committee of the House of Commons elected chamber said it would call the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs and other unspecified witnesses, after a proposal to have representatives of Bombardier and Airbus testify failed.