Aviation

  Bloomberg British Airways (BA) put flights to Hong Kong on hold until March after the imposition of strict quarantine rules by the Asian financial hub’s government saw airline crews forced to isolate in a makeshift camp. The London-based carrier’s schedule shows no services to Hong Kong until the end of February. British Airways initially suspended flights there late last ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s succession options for Chief Executive Officer Carsten Spohr appear less clear after WestJet Airlines Ltd poached one of the German group’s rising-star managers. Alexis von Hoensbroech quit as chief of the Austrian Airlines division to join the Canadian carrier, he said on his LinkedIn page. Lufthansa said earlier that he had chosen to depart and ...

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly has tested positive for Covid-19, days after a US Senate hearing with other industry executives during which he appeared to downplay the effectiveness of face masks on planes. Kelly, 66, “recently tested positive for Covid-19 after experiencing mild symptoms and taking a PCR test,” the Dallas-based airline said in a ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings’s CEO  Michael O’Leary thinks only vaccinated passengers should be allowed to fly, according to the Telegraph. The newspaper said that the European airline chief pushed back against compulsory vaccine programs being rolled out in Austria and Germany. Instead, governments should “make life difficult” for people who refuse to take the vaccine without good reason. “If you’re not ...

  Bloomberg Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials have approached US prosecutors to warn them that the lone person charged with a crime after the two fatal crashes of Boeing Co’s 737 Max is being made a “scapegoat,” according to a court filing in the case. Statements by the Department of Justice after it indicted Mark Forkner, Boeing’s former chief technical ...

  Bloomberg The UK will remove all 11 countries from its so-called Covid-19 red list, paving a way for the reopening of travel to South Africa and other countries just as the peak Christmas season gets underway. The travel bans and hotel quarantine requirements for people arriving from the nations, including Nigeria and Zimbabwe, will be scrapped, Health Secretary Sajid ...

  Bloomberg Hungary will delay the purchase of Budapest Airport because of a ballooning budget deficit, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. The surprise announcement, delivered at a briefing, followed a warning by central bank Governor Gyorgy Matolcsy, who said last week that the size of the purchase threatened the country’s financial stability amid record spending before elections expected in April. ...

  Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd signed a letter of intent with Airbus SE for seven A350 freighters with an option to take five more as the carrier phases out its aging cargo fleet. Delivery of the planes will start in the fourth quarter of 2025, Singapore Airlines said in a statement, without providing a dollar amount. The deal means the ...

  Bloomberg Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd owners Richard Branson and Delta Air Lines Inc agreed to provide a 400 million-pound ($530 million) capital injection into the UK carrier to see it through the latest slump in global travel. Branson’s Virgin Group will cough up 204 million pounds of the funding and Atlanta-based Delta the rest, allowing them to maintain their ...

  Bloomberg New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a $9.5 billion revamp of Terminal 1 at John F Kennedy International Airport, restarting the transformation of one of the busiest airports in the US as it works through pandemic delays. The funding infusion will create a new Terminal 1 on the current site of terminals 1, 2, and 3 at the ...