Aviation

  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 ...

Bloomberg Expedia Group Chief Executive Officer Peter Kern believes that 2023 will be the year that we stop predicting a travel recovery and actually start enjoying it. But before then, he forecasts something bolder: “Summer 2022 will be the busiest travel season ever,” he tells Bloomberg, speaking over Zoom in Wyoming. “We’ve been talking about pent-up demand for a long ...

  Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd is to require all passengers flying to mainland China from Hong Kong to present a negative Covid-19 test result within 48 hours of departure, according to a statement. The move is a “precautionary measure to reduce the risk of exposure” for passengers and Cathay employees, and will start on February 23, the Hong Kong-based ...

Bloomberg Embraer SA’s board approved a pause in development of the slow-selling E175-E2 jetliner for another three years, further delaying the aircraft’s market debut. The Brazilian planemaker plans to resume work following the hiatus, targeting an entry into service between 2027 and 2028, Embraer said. The 80-seat aircraft is the smallest of a three-jet family manufactured by Embraer that target ...

  Bloomberg As flying electric taxis and hydrogen fuel take center stage at the Singapore Airshow, Boeing Co’s plan to clean up aviation is far less revolutionary. Rather than banking on new technology and different propulsion systems, the Chicago-based company is pushing a solution that will limit disruption to its mainstay plane-making business: Run the aircraft on sustainable aviation fuel. ...

  Bloomberg IndiGo co-founder Rakesh Gangwal resigned from the company’s board and plans to pare his stake over five years, according to a statement by the airline. Earlier this month, Rahul Bhatia, the billionaire co-founder of IndiGo, took on a newly-created executive position of managing director at the company. Gangwal had accused Bhatia of corporate governance lapses. The founders were ...