Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. is taking a $30 million blow from Hurricane Florence. The hit to pretax earnings amounted to a 0.5 percentage point drag on total revenue for each seat flown a mile last quarter, the Atlanta-based airline said in a statement. The closely followed financial gauge probably climbed about 4 percent to 4.5 percent last quarter, the ...

Bloomberg Trying to predict the price of plane tickets has become something of a parlour game for companies looking to stand out in the online travel business. Microsoft Corp gave it a shot with Bing Travel before abandoning the feature several years ago. Kayak offers its own buying advice tool, with a warning that draws comparisons to the reliability of ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc has partnered with Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. for connections at its London Gatwick base, giving passengers on mainland Europe easy access to routes across the Atlantic. Connecting with Virgin flights will open up destinations including Las Vegas, Orlando, Antigua and St. Lucia, the carriers said in a joint statement. Similar agreements are already in place with the ...

Bloomberg Jeff Bezos scored a public-relations victory by giving his workers a raise, even drawing praise from Amazon.com Inc. scold Bernie Sanders. But at its root, the $15-an-hour minimum pay is an incentive for people to come work for Amazon — rather than Walmart or Target — as the retail industry gears up for the holiday shopping season amid historically ...

Dubai / Emirates Business­­­­­ Following the launch of new smartphones from leading brands, Jumbo Electronics, the leading omnichannel retailer in the region, is forecasting that smartphones will drive sales at this year’s edition of Gitex Shopper, scheduled to be held till October 6 at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC). During the five-day event, the new iPhone XS/XS Max, Samsung Note ...

Bloomberg JC Penney Co named Jill Soltau as its first female chief executive officer, bringing her 30 years of retail experience to the embattled department-store chain. Soltau, who has served as CEO of Joann Stores since 2015, will step into the role on October 15, JC Penney said in a statement. Shares of the retailer surged as much as 12 ...

Bloomberg Oil traded near the highest level in almost four years as investors grapple with doubts over OPEC’s ability to replace falling exports from Iran. Futures rose 0.2 percent in New York after closing at the highest since November 2014. Iranian crude and condensate exports declined to their lowest in 2 1/2 years before the impending return of US sanctions. ...

Bloomberg Russia’s oil production rose to a post-Soviet high last month as the country completely rolled back the output cuts it had agreed on with Opec, then pumped some more. The country produced a record 11.356 million barrels of oil and condensate a day in September, according to data released on Tuesday by the Energy Ministry’s CDU-TEK statistical unit. That’s ...

Bloomberg Iraq exported more than 4 million barrels a day for a second consecutive month in September as buyers sought alternative supplies to Iran ahead of US sanctions. Shipments from Opec’s No. 2 producer were 4.062 million barrels a day, the highest since November 2016 and compared with 4.061 million a day in August, according to Bloomberg calculations from tanker ...

Bloomberg In the race to solve a fuel-import crisis in Nigeria, Africa’s richest person faces competition from a swarm of tiny challengers. Billionaire Aliko Dangote is building a 650,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Nigeria that will help cut the nation’s $7 billion annual fuel-import bill. Such is the pressure on its finances, the government is pursuing another option, giving licenses to ...