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Aviation firms faced plenty of other woes, too. The owner of British Airways now seems unlikely to complete a takeover of Air Europa, after EU officials said it had done too little to assuage concerns that the deal would hurt competition. Ryanair’s chief executive said that he expected a fall in fares seen during the spring to be sustained into the summer. At the Farnborough Airshow, an industry jamboree, executives lamented a shortage of Airbus and Boeing planes.