Aviation

  Bloomberg Mumbai International Airport Ltd has raised $750 million from a private bond sale to Apollo Global Management Inc after delaying a planned note issue. The operator of India’s No. 2 airport, controlled by the country’s richest man, sold 7.25-year dollar notes to funds managed by Apollo in order to refinance existing debt and fund new capital expenditure, according ...

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co expects a rebound in domestic travel to carry into the summer, joining rivals predicting that consumers will shrug off worries about coronavirus variants, fork over higher fares and fill planes in the coming months. Southwest maintained a plan to restore 93% of its pre-pandemic flight capacity this quarter as robust leisure demand is joined by ...

  Bloomberg Wizz Air Holdings Plc extended its cancellation of flights to Ukraine and Russia through the end of October as the war started by Vladimir Putin in February shows no sign of abating. The move means Eastern Europe’s biggest discount carrier will have scrapped operations to the two countries for the whole of the summer timetable, which this year ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc terminated rental contracts on six Airbus SE jets owned by a Russian state leasing company in a rare example of sanctions depriving a European carrier of aircraft. EasyJet cancelled the leases on the A319 narrowbodies owned by a unit of state-controlled GTLK shortly after the UK and European Union acted to punish Vladimir Putin over the invasion ...

  Bloomberg Russia may be forced to ground between half and two-thirds of its commercial aircraft by 2025 in order to cannibalise them for spare parts, Kommersant newspaper reported, citing an unidentified person at the Transport Ministry. In the ministry’s base case, at least 70% of the country’s foreign-made planes will still be flying by the end of 2025, Kommersant ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE has agreed on a partnership with Italy’s ITA Airways that will see the two companies work together towards eventual deployment of the planemaker’s CityAirbus NextGen flying taxi in the country. A memorandum of understanding details cooperation in areas including recruitment of local partners, identification of markets and the creation of pilot projects, the companies said in ...

Bloomberg Air New Zealand will move its head office to a new campus at Auckland Airport, vacating its central city site to reduce costs and get all staff at a single location. The airline has approved in-principle a project to centralise its Auckland workforce at a refurbished airport campus by 2024, it said. It will also proceed with construction of ...

  Bloomberg An aircraft landing scare in Paris earlier this month most likely resulted from the Air France pilots submitting contradictory commands, rather than any malfunction of the plane, according France’s air-safety investigator. No failure warnings were activated and no anomaly was observed with the Boeing Co 777 in the incident, the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses said. Flight AF011 from ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s latest moves to ease travel into the financial hub are getting a lukewarm reception from the business community and airlines. After months of criticism, the government is loosening a policy that suspends passenger flights for bringing in Covid-19 cases. It is also allowing all non-residents to enter the city for the first time in more than ...

  Bloomberg Air India Ltd, which was taken over by Tata Sons Pvt in January, has offered to acquire the entire share capital of AirAsia India, according to a filing with the country’s anti-trust regulator. The proposed offer seeks to buy the residual stake held by AirAsia Bhd, the filing on the website of the Competition Commission of India showed. ...