Aviation

  Bloomberg Russia’s commercial aircraft fleet could falter within months and risks being largely grounded in a few years as sanctions block essential spare parts from Boeing Co and Airbus SE, according to Jefferies Group LLC. “They’ll be able to fly for the next six months to a year fairly well, then parts start breaking and you’ll need replacements,” Jefferies ...

  Bloomberg More than 100 international flights will be diverted away from Shanghai to other cities to ease pressure on quarantine hotels and isolation facilities in the financial hub as China battles growing pockets of Covid-19. A total of 106 flights on 22 routes will be diverted between March 21 and May 1, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing a statement ...

  Bloomberg London’s Heathrow Airport, British Airways (BA) and Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd are dropping mask requirements as the country scraps remaining Covid-19 travel curbs despite a new flareup in cases. Masks will no longer be needed in Heathrow terminals, rail stations or office buildings from Wednesday, the airport said in a statement. IAG SA-owned British Airways and Virgin will ...

  Bloomberg Bermuda’s Civil Aviation Authority removed all aircraft tied to Russia from its airworthiness registry, exposing hundreds of jetliners owned by foreign leasing firms to devaluation. “International sanctions on the aviation sector have had a significant impact on the ability to sustain safety oversight on Russian-operated aircraft,” the authority said on its website. The agency said it’s “unable to ...

  Bloomberg Australia and the Netherlands started legal proceedings against Russia over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, more than seven years after the deadly crash. The move, at the International Civil Aviation Organization, comes after Russia “unilaterally” ended negotiations with the two countries and comes as well as the national prosecution of four suspects in the crash, according ...

  Bloomberg South African carrier Comair Ltd remained grounded after being suspended indefinitely by the country’s aviation regulator pending a review of concerns raised about safety. The operator of IAG SA-owned British Airways (BA) flights in the country and the domestic low-cost airline Kulula has provided a response that is being reviewed, the Civil Aviation Authority said. The ruling follows ...

Bloomberg Global airlines are going to great lengths to avoid Russian airspace but few to the extent of Finnair Oyj, the flag carrier of Finland. It’s flying thousands of miles around its northern neighbour, retracing routes abandoned decades ago at the end of the Cold War. The economic burden of those end-runs is measured in additional jet fuel burn, extended ...

  Bloomberg Serbia’s flag carrier will scale back flights to Moscow after criticism that it’s profiting from the service at a time when most other airlines stopped flying to Russia to comply with sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, President Aleksandar Vucic said. Air Serbia recently increased its Moscow flights to as many as three a day from one ...

  Bloomberg Airport services and flights across Germany are likely to be affected on Monday after a union called for an all-day walkout over a pay dispute for security personnel. The Verdi union said it’s calling for protest action at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport by security staff working in passenger screening, and personnel and goods control. The walkout is part of nationwide ...

  Bloomberg Off-the-cuff remarks made by a Russian air-safety official, quickly disavowed by the nation’s industry watchdog, have added to the uncertainty over the fate of some $10 billion in foreign-owned aircraft being held in the country. Valery Kudinov, who heads airworthiness maintenance at Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, outlined what appeared to be a plan taking shape for the ...