Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc was sued by a package holiday service over accusations that the airline is exploiting its market dominance in an “aggressive” pursuit against online travel agents. On the Beach Group Plc accused the budget airline of monopolising the market for booking services and not giving customers a “free and fair choice,” according to a London court filing. ...

Bloomberg Qantas Airways Ltd is gearing up for a Christmas rush, bringing back all its Australian workers and adding flights as the nation’s borders reopen after more than 18 months of near-isolation. The airline will start its first commercial flights between Australia and India in almost a decade before Christmas, and flights to Singapore, Bangkok, Fiji, Phuket and Johannesburg will ...

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co trimmed its flight schedule for the second time since August, cutting back on fourth-quarter flying as it struggles to hire enough workers and recover from customer anger over widespread delays. Fourth-quarter capacity will decline 8% from pre-pandemic levels in 2019, compared with a prior plan for a 5% drop, the Dallas-based carrier said as it released ...

Bloomberg Walmart Inc is about to start calling its corporate staff back to the office after more than a year and a half of remote work during the coronavirus pandemic. “We will transition to working together in our campus offices on a more regular basis starting the week of November 8,” Chief People Officer Donna Morris said in a statement. ...

Bloomberg SkyWest Inc, the largest US regional airline, suffered “an internal technical issue” that forced 1,200 flight cancellations as jets and crews that were in the wrong places caused operational woes for a second day. A “server outage” caused the problems but was resolved, SkyWest spokesperson Marissa Snow said in an emailed statement. The airline expected around 500 cancelled flights, ...

Bloomberg New Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling party was dealt a blow when it lost one of two upper house special elections, which are serving as a barometer of support ahead of a national general election in a week. In a setback to the premier, opposition-backed Shinnosuke Yamazaki was projected by public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News as the ...

Bloomberg The activist coalition that backs Sudan’s civilian wing of government said the army should cede chairmanship of the country’s joint military-civilian sovereign council by November 17. A civilian should assume leadership of the council by that date, leading member of the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance, Mohamed Nagi Alassam, said, citing calculations based on previous pacts between activists, ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s envoy for North Korea reiterated the US is ready for dialog without preconditions, urging the country to respond to its offers, Yonhap reported. The US has made it clear it has no hostile intention at all, Yonhap said, citing US Special Representative for North Korea Sung Kim. He spoke after meeting South Korea’s Special Representative for ...

Bloomberg A powerful Pacific storm slammed into California and the Pacific Northwest bringing crashing surf, flooding rains that could touch off mudslides, and heavy snow across the region’s higher elevations. Drenching rain has already fallen in northern California, with parts of Marin County, north of San Francisco, getting 5.68 inches, said Scott Rowe, a National Weather Service meteorologist. Flood, wind, ...

Bloomberg The UK government said negotiations with the European Union over the Northern Ireland Protocol need solutions “urgently” ahead of new talks aimed at closing key disagreements between the parties. A team from the EU Commission will travel to London, after which Brexit Minister David Frost and the Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic are due to meet and take stock of ...