Aviation

Bloomberg Understaffed airports and airlines from Australia to Europe are struggling to cope with a fresh rush of travellers, with long queues and flight disruptions expected to persist as the busy Easter weekend approaches. The aviation industry axed hundreds of thousands of workers to get through the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. That left airports and airlines short of staff ...

Bloomberg Travel disruption continued to hit UK holidaymakers as officials warned of expected queues at airports later in the week and motorists faced fuel shortages. Both EasyJet Plc and British Airways had more cancellations, though the airlines said those flights had been called off in advance. According to FlightAware data, British Airways canceled 7% of flights today and delayed 19%. ...

  Bloomberg Sichuan Airlines Corp suspended one of its employees after contentious comments he posted online were unearthed, highlighting growing jitters in China after a deadly air crash last month. An internet user took to Weibo to ask the carrier to prevent the staff member in question — identifiable as an ethnic Mongolian Chinese national called Ayingga — from flying ...

  Bloomberg London’s Heathrow airport will ramp up hiring “as fast as possible” after passenger numbers surged last month to the highest since the Covid-19 pandemic began. The 4.2 million travellers passing through the facility during March represents a more than seven-fold jump from a year earlier, according to a statement on Monday. The hub, once Europe’s busiest, is racing ...

  Bloomberg Spirit Airlines Inc will hold talks with JetBlue Airways Corp over its $3.6 billion cash takeover bid that’s threatening to disrupt a pending combination between Spirit and rival deep discounter Frontier Group Holdings Inc. JetBlue’s offer could lead to a superior proposal, Spirit said in a statement after assessing the bid with financial and legal advisers. JetBlue’s unsolicited ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG has about 10 billion euros ($11 billion) more debt because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to CEO Carsten Spohr. “That’s the price tag,” Spohr said in an interview with newspaper Schweiz am Wochenende. “It was expensive.” The German carrier hopes that its Swiss airline will pay back its pandemic-related government-backed loans by the end of the ...

Bloomberg The Dutch advertising watchdog ruled that a KLM promotion telling customers they could fly carbon-emission free is misleading. The ad’s tag line, “Be a hero, fly CO2 zero,” is an absolute claim, the Dutch Advertising Code Committee said in a verdict seen by Bloomberg. As such, the company has the burden of proving the statement and didn’t meet that ...

  Bloomberg The US issued orders suspending Aeroflot PJSC, Russia’s biggest airline, and two others from receiving US parts and services for their planes, a step that officials expect over time will limit their ability to fly. The denial orders for Aeroflot, Azur Air, and UTair Aviation PJSC announced by the Commerce Department mark the first enforcement action for violation ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE delivered 63 planes last month, boosting the firm’s plans to ramp up output despite concern that surging oil prices and the conflict in Eastern Europe could dent demand. The handovers took the first-quarter tally to 142. Net deliveries were reduced by two after trade sanctions imposed over the Ukraine invasion prevented the handover of A350 long-haul ...

  Bloomberg Kenya Airways Plc and South African Airways are planning a series of investor roadshows to help find a financial backer for a combined airline group they aim to create next year. The campaign to attract a majority investor for a holding company to be modeled on British Airways and Iberia owner IAG SA is likely to start before ...