Aviation

  Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. is considering hiring options to combat an exodus of pilots from Hong Kong, senior executives said at a town hall, according to a person who attended the meeting. The carrier’s top management, including chief operations and service delivery officer Greg Hughes, told staff that an initial spike in pilot resignations last November had remained ...

  Bloomberg Jazeera Airways’s board approved a deal to purchase of 28 narrow-body planes from Airbus SE as the Kuwaiti carrier expands its network to include long-haul routes. The value of the agreement is $3.4 billion and comprises 20 A320neos and eight A321neos, according to a statement. The companies had signed the pact at the Dubai Airshow in November. Jazeera, ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE said it will make a flying-taxi model available for sale only when the technology is mature, despite rival designs racking up hundreds of conditional orders at a similar stage of development. The CityAirbus NextGen, unveiled last September following a revamp to an earlier blueprint, will fly by the end of next year once remaining technical challenges ...

  Bloomberg Philippine Airlines Inc. President Gilbert Santa Maria is stepping down from his role in the carrier, the Philippine Star reported Sunday, citing unnamed people in the industry. The board of directors of the airline, majority owned by billionaire Lucio Tan, is set to meet Monday, and Santa Maria’s departure is on the agenda, the Star reported. A Philippine ...

  Bloomberg Two years into the pandemic and the airline industry remains on standby for the return of business travelers. Expectations that expense account-wielding road warriors would follow on the heels of leisure travelers have yet to materialize, and the outlook remains hazy with the spread of the latest coronavirus variant. That’s kept carriers’ profits in check and raised questions ...

  Bloomberg EasyJet Plc will pour capacity into the UK this summer as easing travel curbs boost demand and make the country a key battleground for airlines emerging from two years of Covid-19 disruption. Bookings in Britain are surging, according to the Luton, England-based carrier, which plans to lift seating to near normal levels by the summer, meeting the challenge ...

  Bloomberg Air India Ltd. is seeking to end a case filed by Devas Multimedia Pvt in a US court, arguing a recent change in ownership of the carrier prevents demands over recovery of arbitration awards. Devas demands $1.2 billion from the Indian government after winning three international arbitration awards over a scrapped telecommunications deal with a state-run firm. The ...

  Bloomberg Hawaiian Airlines is seeking to ramp up its limited flight service to Japan in the second quarter, an omicron variant-linked delay from the carrier’s earlier goal of returning to a fuller slate of flights by late March. Japan represents the largest foreign market for Hawaiian, which had about a quarter of its business outside the US before the ...

  Bloomberg Tata Sons Pvt formally took charge of debt-laden Air India Ltd., ending years of failed attempts to sell the money-losing airline that has been kept afloat with billions of dollars of taxpayer money. “It is indeed noteworthy that the disinvestment process of @airindiain has been brought to a successful conclusion in a time-bound manner,” aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong will shorten its quarantine requirement for inbound travelers by a week, but extended a ban on people coming from eight countries as a record number of infections stresses the city’s infrastructure. The shorter quarantine period will begin from February 5, and will see travelers stay in a hotel for 14 days and then undertake seven days ...