Aviation

  Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc was sued by its pilots union to block a plan that would seek volunteers to help with flight-simulator training amid record hiring. The plan would violate the Railway Labor Act, which prohibits unilateral changes to contracts between airlines and their unions, according to the suit, filed by the Allied Pilots Association (APA) in a ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc spurred a rally among airline and leisure stocks as it said a strong rebound in summer travel bookings will help the carrier overcome rising fuel costs and a slow return of business travel. While the airline posted a first-quarter loss, it stood firm with previous projections that it would be profitable for the year’s remaining ...

  Bloomberg Jet fuel supplies on the US East Coast have never been lower, despite producers boosting output amid rising demand. Inventories for the region are at a historic low in government data going back to 1990. Nationally, stockpiles are at their lowest on a seasonal basis since 2004. Meanwhile, implied jet fuel demand based on a four-week average rose ...

Bloomberg Australians traveling for the Easter break are again anticipating hour-long waits as the nation’s largest airports and airlines continue to battle a staffing crisis. Sydney Airport has advised people traveling domestically to arrive more than two hours ahead of their scheduled flight — twice as long as usual — as it braces for 82,000 travellers to pass through its ...

  Bloomberg India barred 90 pilots from flying Boeing Co 737 Max jets after finding problems with a simulator they’d trained on to operate the aircraft, which the country cleared to fly again in August following a global grounding. A routine check of the simulator revealed deficiencies, and an investigation is underway to discover what caused them, Arun Kumar, chief ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc reiterated its plan to gear up operations to near pre-pandemic levels through the summer high season, as an easing of travel restrictions unleashes pent-up demand. Europe’s second-biggest discount carrier managed to narrow its estimated loss in a fiscal first half roiled by the rise of the omicron variant of Covid-19, and has now turned its focus to ...

Bloomberg German billionaire Klaus-Michael Kuehne has doubled his stake in his country’s flagship airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG, cementing his position as the carrier’s second-largest shareholder behind the government. KA Logistik Beteiligungen GmbH, controlled by the the 84-year-old Kuehne, doubled its stake in Lufthansa to 10.01%, according to a filing. The investor plans to be a “long-term, stable and reliable partner” ...

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 ...