Aviation

Bloomberg Thailand will further relax entry rules for foreign visitors starting next month, bowing to demand from the local tourism industry to lower costs as more countries ease border controls to lure holidaymakers. Vaccinated visitors to the Southeast Asian nation won’t be required to undergo a mandatory polymerase chain reaction test on the fifth day of the arrival starting from ...

  Bloomberg The largest union representing US flight attendants expects a federal order mandating face masks for air passengers and other travellers will be extended again, even as a growing number of states and businesses lift restrictions. The requirement is set to expire on March 18 after being extended three times since it first was imposed in February 2021 as ...

  Bloomberg London Heathrow airport’s losses from two years of Covid disruption swelled to 3.8 billion pounds ($5.2 billion), leaving its finances hanging on a summer travel rebound and the go-ahead from regulators to raise prices. The UK hub had a loss of 1.8 billion pounds last year after passenger numbers slumped to 19.4 million, the lowest since 1972, Heathrow ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE is set to announce a partnership with engine-maker CFM International to work on hydrogen propulsion as it targets introduction of a passenger aircraft running on the fuel by 2035, according to people familiar with the matter. An announcement involves adapting a current-generation CFM engine to run on hydrogen, said the people, who asked not to be ...

  Bloomberg Air France-KLM has won shareholder support for a capital increase, and will go ahead when its stock price allows it, French newspaper Les Echos reported without saying how it obtained the information. The recapitalisation will take place in the next few months, with main shareholders including the French state, as well as the Netherlands, Delta Airlines and China ...

  Bloomberg Kuwait Airways restructured its order with Airbus SE, adding longer-distance single-aisle aircraft while reducing a commitment to the largest jetliners as it adapts to post-Covid demand. The loss-making airline added three A321LR narrowbodies, which will be used to serve mid-size destinations such as Manchester, England, from Kuwait. It also upscaled six A320neos to the bigger A321neo model, Chairman ...

  Bloomberg One of the last air links between two key Asian financial hubs has been severed, with Hong Kong banning Singapore Airlines Ltd’s budget carrier Scoot from flying to the city for two weeks after passengers tested positive for Covid on arrival. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines services from Amsterdam are also prohibited from February 21 to March 6, Hong ...

  Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd’s budget carrier Scoot has stopped accepting bookings to Hong Kong until March 7, signalling it is the latest airline to be banned from flying to the city for two weeks. The move severs one of the last air links between the Asian financial hubs, with a service by Cathay Pacific Ltd’s HK Express unit the ...

  Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc is making additional cuts to its international flight plans this summer because of ongoing delays in deliveries of Boeing Co 787 Dreamliners, a setback for the carrier just as global travel is expected to begin recovering from a pandemic slump. The airline will delay until November from June the start of a flight between ...

Bloomberg Steve Dickson, who led the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through a tumultuous period following fatal crashes of Boeing Co’s 737 Max and the Covid-19 pandemic, is stepping down from the agency at the end of March. Dickson informed FAA’s employees in an email of his plan to depart less than three years into his five-year term. He called ...