Aviation

Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd will start flying freshly fitted Boeing Co 737 Max jets to countries including Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand in the coming weeks, the company said on Tuesday. The carrier is absorbing six of the 154-seat narrow-body planes into its fleet with the integration of its SilkAir unit. Another is expected to enter service before March, and then ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong will consider imposing tighter restrictions on aircrew, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said, as the city prioritises its Covid-Zero policy in a bid to reopen the border with mainland China. Hong Kong flight crew already face some of the most onerous restrictions in the world, with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd just saying any crew members who stayed in ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE notched a mega-order for 255 narrow-body jets at the Dubai Airshow, bolstering the European planemaker’s case that aircraft demand has started to roar back from the lows of the coronavirus pandemic. The deal for Airbus’s larger A321 model is valued at more than $30 billion before typical industry discounts. It will be parceled out among Wizz Air ...

Bloomberg FlyDubai, the low-cost sister company of giant long-haul airline Emirates, said it’s in early talks with both Boeing Co and Airbus SE about its next jetliner order after previously being a loyal customer of the US company. While FlyDubai is an all-Boeing operator, it scrapped 65 orders for the 737 Max model after deliveries were halted following two fatal ...

Bloomberg AirAsia X Bhd’s debt-restructuring proposal received more than 95% support from creditors in meetings as the debt-laden budget carrier tries to stay afloat. The airline received full support from two classes of creditors on its proposed debt restructuring and 97.6% from the third group, it said in separate statements to the Malaysian stock exchange. AirAsia X needed at least ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co is on the verge of surmounting issues that have held back deliveries of its two most important aircraft, the 787 and the 737 Max, an executive said. The planemaker is “getting close” to restarting deliveries of the 787, Ihssane Mounir, senior vice president of commercial sales and marketing, said in Dubai ahead of an air show on ...

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd expressed concern about a possible move by Hong Kong to rein in quarantine exemptions for aircrew operating cargo flights, saying it could reduce the number of available employees and disrupt the supply of goods moving in and out of the financial hub. The airline, Asia’s biggest cargo carrier, has been operating a full freighter schedule ...

Bloomberg Cebu Air Inc resumed hiring cabin crew, anticipating a recovery in air-travel demand as the Philippines eases its coronavirus curbs. “The airline has reached out and encouraged former CEB cabin crew to apply as the airline gets ready for growth,” the Philippines’ largest budget carrier said in a statement. The airline unit of conglomerate JG Summit Holdings Inc has ...

Bloomberg British Airways (BA) is set to operate a new unit offering European flights from London Gatwick airport in March following a deal with cabin crew. The breakthrough in talks with flight attendants comes after an earlier deal with pilots and leaves only terms with ground staff to be settled, Luis Gallego, chief executive officer of BA parent IAG SA, ...

Bloomberg Sydney Airport agreed to sell itself to a consortium of funds for $17 billion, just as Australia reopens its borders to international travel. The airport’s board accepted an offer of A$8.75 per share from a group led by IFM Investors, and unanimously recommended shareholders vote to approve the deal early next year, the company said. The agreement is the ...