Aviation

  Bloomberg India is expecting local air passenger traffic will surpass the pre-pandemic level within a year as fliers return, emboldened by a steep fall in new Covid-19 infections. “I am very confident in the days to come, in the months to come, within the next year, we will surpass the pre-Covid level” of 415,000 daily passengers, India Civil Aviation ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong airport will allow transit passengers for the first time in three months, building on the wider relaxation of strict Covid-19 border controls in the Asian financial hub. Airlines were informed that transit passengers from so-called group A “high-risk” countries will be allowed to transfer through Hong Kong airport from next month, according to a letter seen ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE has tried for years to find a new customer for its bigger jets in India, the world’s fastest growing aviation market before Covid shattered travel. Two of its previous buyers went bankrupt, while another was sold, giving arch rival Boeing Co a firm foothold in the South Asian nation’s market for transcontinental planes. Remi Maillard, the ...

  Bloomberg A coalition of leading passenger and cargo airlines is calling on Hong Kong to scrap pre-flight and on-arrival Covid-19 tests for aircrew, saying they are a key reason to avoid flying to the city. Hong Kong is the only jurisdiction in Asia that requires such tests, which lead to delays and the risk of staff being sent to ...

Bloomberg Vaccine passports will probably become redundant as more people are inoculated against Covid, and efforts to create a common standard are stymied by differing entry requirements, the head of the world’s biggest airline alliance said. “There’s no way that this has been integrated in one place,” Star Alliance Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Goh said in an interview in Singapore. ...

  Bloomberg The China Eastern Airlines Corp jet that crashed was travelling at close to the speed of sound in the moments before it slammed into a hillside, according to a Bloomberg News review of flight-track data. Such an impact may complicate the task for investigators because it can obliterate evidence and damage a plane’s data and voice recorders that ...

  Bloomberg Russia offered to compensate owners of jets commandeered by the country, a bid to smooth relations with leasing companies that stand to lose billions of dollars on rented aircraft they can’t get back. Authorities in Moscow are seeking ways to legally get round sanctions requiring international firms to recall the planes, Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev said. Options include ...

  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 ...