Bloomberg Flight cancellations that disrupted US travel over the Christmas weekend stretched further, with winter storms further pressuring carriers that were already short-staffed because of spreading Covid-19 cases. About 1,160 US flights were cancelled on December 27 after more than 2,800 were dropped over the weekend, according to data from FlightAware.com. One of the hardest-hit carriers was Alaska Air ...

  Bloomberg Indonesia became the latest country to allow Boeing Co’s 737 Max planes back to its skies, joining Ethiopia in lifting the ban on the aircraft that crashed in both countries more than two years ago. The transport ministry will let airlines resume flying the aircraft in its territories after completion of the investigation process and improvements made to ...

  Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc service to China “remains very fluid” after a flight to Shanghai from the US was turned back because of the procedures needed to clean and disinfect the airplane, the carrier said. The flight returned to Seattle in order “to be compliant with cleaning mandates required at Shanghai Pudong International Airport that were issued by ...

  Bloomberg Crocs Inc tumbled the most in more than a year after agreeing to buy casual-shoe brand Heydude for $2.5 billion in an effort to bolster its fast-growing business of offbeat footwear. The purchase will be funded by $2.05 billion in cash and $450 million in Crocs shares issued to Heydude founder Alessandro Rosano, according to a statement. Crocs ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong will mandate three-day hotel quarantines for air cargo crew, as the Asian city steps up efforts to prevent any local transmission of the contagious omicron Covid-19 variant. “We have to balance between the risk of infectious disease outbreaks and the cargo operation,” Edwin Tsui, controller of the Center for Health Protection, said at a press briefing ...

  Bloomberg A powerful storm rammed western Japan with record snowfall, disrupting flights, train travel and leaving hundreds without power. Snowfall surpassed 70 centimetrs (28 inches) in the cities of Hikone and Maizuru, in the prefectures of Shiga and Kyoto, respectively, data from the Japan Meteorological Agency showed. Obama city in Fukui, Japan’s coastal region, received record snowfall for this ...

  Bloomberg North Korea’s ruling party started a major policy meeting to lay out priorities for the coming year and how to respond to the Biden administration’s invitation to return to nuclear disarmament talks stalled for about two years. Leader Kim Jong-un attended the opening session of a Workers’ Party Central Committee meeting, the official Korean Central News Agency said. ...

  Bloomberg The Philippines signed a deal to purchase two corvettes from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd, beefing up its defense capabilities in a region that has become more militarised due competing claims in the South China Sea. The warships, part of a 28 billion-peso ($556 million) project for the Philippine Navy, are capable of anti-ship, anti-submarine and anti-air warfare ...

  Bloomberg Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the closure of International Memorial, the country’s most prominent human rights group, escalating a sweeping crackdown that has also targeted opposition activists and independent media. The group founded by Soviet-era dissidents including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov must shut down after failing to identify itself as a “foreign agent” under Russian law, Judge ...

  Bloomberg Taiwan is bracing for more Chinese military patrols in 2022, after People’s Liberation Army (PLA) incursions more than doubled this year, fuelling concern about a clash between the region’s big powers. Chinese warplanes have made some 950 forays into Taiwan’s air-defense identification zone since January, according to Bloomberg-compiled data from the Ministry of National Defense in Taipei. That ...