So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Uncertainty again faces 3,600 jobs at Bombardier in Belfast after the Canadian planemaker said it had put up for sale facilities across the city.

Bombardier is to sell its aerostructures business in Belfast, the company has announced.

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The North’s business leaders have stepped up their pressure on the DUP for the party to drop its plan to vote down the Brexit transition deal UK Prime Minister Theresa May struck with the EU.

The loss of almost 500 jobs at Canadian company Bombardier in Belfast will have a disproportionately hard effect on the North’s economy. It will also show up its over-reliance on public service employment at a time of great stress over the Brexit talks, say experts.

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

Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority is stepping up efforts to ensure that airlines and aerospace companies can carry on functioning in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Bombardier has won a $719m (€600m) order for 15 new jets from American Airlines.

Aircraft manufacturer Bombardier has won its case against United States proposals to impose tariffs of 292% on its imports to America in a move which should safeguard thousands of jobs in Belfast.

Embraer — the world’s third largest aircraft manufacturer — is not concerned for its future following Airbus’s takeover of its nearest rival Bombardier, according to its Clare-born chief executive John Slattery.

As head of a company that has true pan-European credentials, his views should be heeded, and especially by the aerospace industry in the North, writes Joe Gill.

Airbus announced the biggest commercial-plane transaction in its history, securing an order for single-aisle aircraft valued at nearly $50bn (€42.6bn) at the Dubai Air Show, outdoing Boeing’s own $20bn mega-deal, Julie Johnsson, Mary Schlangenstein and Benjamin D Katz report.

Bombardier is closing in on the second deal for its C Series jet since reaching a landmark agreement with Airbus a few weeks ago that will see the European aircraft maker take control of the programme to help revive the plane’s fortunes.

Bombardier is closing in on the second deal for its C Series jet since reaching a landmark agreement with Airbus a few weeks ago that will see the European aircraft maker take control of the programme to help revive the plane’s fortunes.

An airliner has landed with no nose gear at Belfast International Airport.

Donald Trump's commerce secretary has held out the prospect that Airbus's acquisition of a majority stake in Bombardier's controversial C-Series jet programme could have an impact on US tariffs on the plane which threaten jobs in Northern Ireland.

Aircraft manufacturer Bombardier is shedding almost 300 jobs at its Belfast plant.

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Regional airline Flybe has warned over profits after incurring higher-than-expected aircraft maintenance costs.

Shares in Bombardier surged after the company ceded control of its slow-selling C Series jet programme to Airbus.

The announcement that Airbus is taking a majority stake in Bombardier's C-Series jet project has been welcomed by politicians in the North.

Airbus has acquired a majority stake in Bombardier's C Series aircraft programme, the companies have announced.

Bombardier is seeking investors for its aerospace businesses and considering a sale of some operations, according to sources, as a turnaround plan at the Canadian aircraft-maker faces pressure from potentially crippling US tariffs on its marquee jetliner.

The UK Government has been accused of impotence after the US upped a proposed import levy on products made by one of Northern Ireland's largest employers to 300%.

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 yesterday.

Bombardier is betting on fast-growing markets like India to boost sales of its Q400 and CSeries narrow-body planes at a time when the Canadian planemaker faces a trade row over sales to the US that could affect thousands of jobs in Belfast.

The European Union has been urged to step in and help resolve the aerospace trade dispute threatening hundreds of jobs in the Belfast factory of plane-maker Bombardier.

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May to intervene in the Bombardier trade dispute.

Theresa May has hit out at Boeing over the escalating US trade dispute with Belfast-linked rival Bombardier, warning its behaviour was "no way to operate".

Britain told US planemaker Boeing it could lose out on British defence contracts because of its dispute with Canadian rival Bombardier which has put 4,200 jobs at risk in the North.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is "bitterly disappointed" by a US Department of Commerce decision to impose a tariff of nearly 220% on a new model of passenger jet manufactured by Bombardier, one of the North's biggest employers, Downing Street said.

A preliminary US finding on a trade dispute which could threaten thousands of Northern Irish jobs is due later.

Swiss International Air Lines is expanding its Cork-Zurich service for 2018, on the back of demand from the region’s pharma firms.

Swiss International Air Lines is expanding its Cork-Zurich service for 2018, on the back of demand from the region’s pharma firms.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has lobbied Donald Trump over the importance of preserving jobs at aerospace giant Bombardier in Northern Ireland, as the pair met for talks in New York.

Almost 100 jobs are being shed in Northern Ireland by aircraft manufacturer Bombardier.

The British Government is "working tirelessly" to safeguard Bombardier's operations and its highly skilled workforce in Belfast, the Northern Ireland Secretary has said.

American aircraft manufacturer Boeing is refusing to back down in a bitter aerospace trade dispute which could financially devastate one of the North's biggest employers.

Canada’s jet maker Bombardier will delay paying more than half of last year’s compensation for top executives, responding to protests after increasing payouts despite receiving government aid and planning mass job cuts.

More than 1,000 jobs are to be shed at the Bombardier aircraft manufacturer this year in Belfast, a union leader said.