Aviation

  Bloomberg The health ministers of Malaysia and Singapore agreed to work on resuming travel completely between the two countries considering the pandemic situation has stabilized, Malaysian Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin wrote on Twitter. The two ministers agreed they can immediately work on enabling full resumption of air and land travel for fully vaccinated people, Khairy said. He met with ...

  Bloomberg Air New Zealand has announced plans to fly directly to New York — one of the longest routes in the world — as the country begins to rebuild a tourism industry that’s been decimated by the pandemic. The carrier said it will begin direct flights from Auckland to John F Kennedy Airport in September. At just over 16 ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co faces a new crisis after a 737 jet fell out of the sky in China, renewing concerns about its best-selling family of planes and extending one of the most turbulent periods in the aviation titan’s century-long history. The 737-800 aircraft operated by China Eastern Airlines Corp nose-dived into mountainous terrain with 132 people on board, prompting ...

Bloomberg Traveling to Hong Kong isn’t set to get much easier once a ban on flights from nine countries including the US and the UK is lifted, with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd planning just one inbound flight every two weeks. The airline said it isn’t able to expand its schedule any more than what it was planning due to “the ...

  Bloomberg A China Eastern Airlines Corp Boeing Co 737-800NG plane carrying 132 people crashed in China’s southwestern province of Guangxi. According to FlightRadar24, China Eastern flight MU5735 was traveling from Kunming to Guangzhou, and radar tracking shows the aircraft descending steeply. Eyewitness videos posted to social media showed a forest fire on a mountainside at what was purported to ...

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd shares jumped to their highest intraday level since June 2020 on Monday morning as Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that a flight ban on nine countries would be lifted and mandatory quarantine eased to seven days from 14. The shares rose as much as 4.9% before paring their gain to 0.8% at the ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc will give most of its 75,000 employees a 4% pay increase as the carrier emerges from the coronavirus pandemic’s drubbing. Flight attendants and ground employees — such as ticket and gate agents, baggage handlers and mechanics — are eligible for the raise, which takes effect from May 1. It applies to employees worldwide except those ...

  Bloomberg Mexico City’s newest airport, opening on March 21, is meant to relieve traffic at the mega-city’s main hub. The eight daily flights it will start with won’t achieve this — but that’s beside the point for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The Felipe Angeles airport, located about 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Mexico City’s centre, is a ...

Bloomberg The Biden administration identified billionaire Roman Abramovich’s Gulfstream business jet among 100 for apparent violations of the nation’s export controls imposed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions apply to commercial and private aircraft destined for Russia and Belarus in recent weeks, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said in a statement. Other planes were listed as ...

  Bloomberg South African airline group Comair Ltd resumed flights after being given the all clear by the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, which was investigating a series of incidents over concerns about safety. The decision allows the local operator of British Airways and owner of the low-cost Kulula carrier to restart services on Thursday after a five-day grounding, restoring about ...