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Lufthansa cancels summer flights due to staff shortages

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG cancelled hundreds of summer flights due to staff shortages, underscoring the challenges facing European aviation as the industry fights to recover from the coronavirus crisis. Germany’s flagship airline scrapped about 900 domestic and European short haul trips for July, including those at its namesake and Eurowings budget brands, a spokesman said. The canceled flights, which were ...

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Garuda Indonesia plans to tackle liabilities with $800m of new debt

  Bloomberg PT Garuda Indonesia plans to issue $800 million of new debt as part of a plan to address its liabilities, as the embattled carrier seeks to reverse its fortunes after the pandemic. The airline would also raise $330 million by issuing new equity, according to a restructuring proposal made in a Jakarta court. The carrier also suggested modifying ...

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Cleaning up airline travel seems to be really expensive

Bloomberg We’re probably going to have to fly less. And when we do board a plane, it’s going to cost more — a lot more, one way or another. Those are the conclusions of a new report by the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation, which analysed how the airline industry could cut emissions in line with global climate goals. ...

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British Airways’ South African operator poised to be liquidated

  Bloomberg Comair, the South African partner of British Airways and owner of low-cost carrier Kulula, is on the brink of collapse after administrators were unable to raise the funds needed to resume flying. The operator of about 40% of domestic air trips in South Africa has been battling with high fuel prices, the aftermath of coronavirus travel bans and ...

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Paris airport scraps flights amid strike

  Bloomberg A quarter of flights were cancelled and two runways shut by a strike at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, the latest upheaval to hit the European transport industry struggling to meet higher demand for travel. The walkout by a broad range of employees at the French capital’s international hub is also expected to cause delays for passengers whose flights ...

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Defense chiefs of US, China tout progress despite Taiwan row

  Bloomberg US and Chinese defense officials said they planned further talks after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his counterpart sparred over Taiwan and other regional security issues for almost an hour. Both sides emerged from the first in-person encounter between Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Singapore citing plans for additional discussions. A Chinese military spokesman described ...

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Bolsonaro fears worst as writer, expert go missing

  Bloomberg President Jair Bolsonaro said he fears the worst may have happened to a British journalist and an expert on indigenous peoples who went missing four days ago in the Brazilian Amazon after receiving threats. Brazilian authorities have been searching for Dom Phillips, a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper, and Bruno Araujo Pereira since they disappeared during a ...

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Kishida pledges more security role in Asia

Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed his country would expand its security role in Asia, and seek to bolster the rules-based order in a speech at an international security forum in Singapore. In the first keynote presentation by a Japanese premier at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in eight years, Kishida said he would lay out a “Free and Open ...

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China all set to put tycoon seized in Hong Kong on trial

  Bloomberg A Chinese-Canadian tycoon who was seized at a Hong Kong hotel five years ago and has lost much of his sprawling business empire to the Chinese government is about to go on trial, the Wall Street Journal reported. Prosecutors in Shanghai plan to charge Xiao Jianhua with illegal collection of public deposits, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar ...

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