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BA parent to outline its plan to lower emissions

Bloomberg British Airways parent IAG SA will outline its plan to lower emissions, including the use of carbon offsets, when the airline group’s new chief speaks at a United Nations summit this weekend. Chief Executive Officer Luis Gallego, who was expected set to address the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit on Saturday, will provide a road map towards fulfilling IAG’s ...

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United Airlines holds out hope for summer travel

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc predicted that sales will rebound next summer as vaccines take hold, even as the company echoed rivals in warning that surging coronavirus cases have caused near-term demand to weaken over the past month. Bookings for the third quarter of 2021, the heart of the airline industry’s peak season, will only be 40% below pre-pandemic levels, ...

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Southwest CEO sees ‘really rough months’ looming for early 2021

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co expects depressed travel amid the nationwide surge in coronavirus cases and typically weak seasonal demand to combine for a difficult start to 2021 for the industry. “January and February are bound to be really rough months — winter time, high case loads — and they are seasonally soft anyway,” Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly said in ...

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Mexico’s Volaris mounts new offensive as rivals struggle

Bloomberg Mexico’s biggest airline plans to use proceeds from a $173 million stock sale to pounce on struggling rivals as it rebounds from an unprecedented travel collapse. Volaris is restoring seating capacity this month to 100% of last year’s levels and targeting a return to profitability by the second quarter of 2021, said Chief Executive Officer Enrique Beltranena. The carrier ...

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Walmart adds freezers to prep for vaccine rollout

Bloomberg Walmart Inc says it’s preparing its more than 5,000 pharmacies across the US to receive Covid-19 vaccine doses, including adding freezers and dry ice to handle any cold-storage demands. The preparations underway at Walmart and Sam’s Club pharmacies also include creating processes to tell customers when to get their first and second doses and entering agreements with states about ...

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Costco tops profit expectations in Q1

Bloomberg Costco Wholesale Corp topped Wall Street’s profit expectations during the first quarter amid continued high demand for food and supplies, even as the warehouse chain said pandemic-related costs remain elevated. Profit climbed to $2.62 a share in the period ended on November 22, the company said. Analysts had expected $2.06 on average, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Costco ...

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Top court spurns partisanship in denying Trump polls case

Bloomberg In rejecting President Donald Trump’s call to overturn the US election outcome, the Supreme Court sent a message about its role in the American system of government: We do law here, not partisan politics. With a brief, the court effectively killed any chance that Trump and his allies would succeed in using baseless claims of widespread fraud to reverse ...

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Brexit gets one more shot after UK PM’s call with EU

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed to give talks on a post-Brexit trade deal one more shot after speaking by phone on Sunday, a sign that they may be able to salvage an accord after days of pessimism. In a joint statement issued following their conversation, they said that “despite the ...

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California roars back with Biden’s ‘picks’

Bloomberg After four years on the outs in Washington, California is roaring back. The Golden State, a favourite target of President Donald Trump, is regaining its stature as a source of policy ideas and personnel under President-elect Joe Biden. He’s recruited prominent Californians for key jobs in his administration such as Senator Kamala Harris as his vice president and Attorney ...

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Merkel orders Germany into hard lockdown as Covid infections swell

Bloomberg Germany will enter a hard lockdown from Wednesday, with non-essential stores shuttered, employers urged to close workplaces and school children encouraged to remain at home. The tighter restrictions — including a ban on gatherings over the New Year — will last until at least January 10 as a looser shutdown failed to halt a surge in daily coronavirus infections ...

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