Aviation

Bloomberg Air New Zealand expects to suffer at least three straight years of losses as the pandemic continues to keep international borders closed and severely restrict long-haul travel. The airline will post a loss before significant items and tax of as much as NZ$450 million ($315 million) for the year ended on June 30 and foresees a “comparable” result in ...

Bloomberg Ares Management was sued by a specialist credit fund co-founded by a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc partner over the sale of collateral on a loan to a struggling Norwegian airline. Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd claims that several Ares funds that held the notes directed that aircraft used as collateral be sold to an Ares affiliate, despite a ...

Bloomberg The coronavirus pandemic has created an overhang of pent-up travel demand and left unspent money burning holes in the pockets of the well-to-do. Put the two together and the result is a hunger for private jets. Buyers have scooped up so many of the good used planes out there that they’re now getting on waiting lists to purchase new ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co’s biggest 737 Max model lifted off into brilliant blue skies for the first time, marking another milestone in the jet family’s comeback from tragedy and a lengthy grounding. The stretched narrowbody jet rumbled down a runway adjacent to the Renton, Washington, factory where it was built and took flight at 10:07 am local time. After performing aerial ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG said it plans to repay billions of euros in aid from the German government before the country’s federal election on September 26. Europe’s biggest airline is working on measures to secure the refinancing “hopefully before the general election,” Chief Executive Officer Carsten Spohr said at Germany’s National Aviation Conference. The comments are a sign of increasing ...

Bloomberg Shares of Philippine Airlines’s parent company were suspended from trading after its auditor issued a disclaimer of opinion on its annual report. The Philippine stock exchange suspended trading of PAL Holdings Inc shares from 9:30 am, extending a halt imposed when the company submitted its annual report that showed it posting a record loss in 2020 due to the ...

Bloomberg The airport in Shenzhen, a Chinese city neighbouring Hong Kong, tightened controls on entry to its facilities after a restaurant employee was found to carry the delta coronavirus variant. All visitors to the terminals and ground traffic centre must provide a negative nucleic-acid test administered within the prior 48 hours, according to a statement posted on Shenzhen Airport Group’s ...

Bloomberg Troubled flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia put off the payment on its Islamic debt once again, highlighting its financing crunch as the firm tries to avoid bankruptcy. The Southeast Asian airline, struggling as the pandemic depresses air travel worldwide, said it “will continue to defer the periodic distribution amount due on June 3, 2023,” in a filing to the ...

Bloomberg Thai Airways International Pcl is seeking new loans to help fund operations after the court approved its plan to restructure at least $5.5 billion of debt. The carrier has been in talks with some banks for loans of as much as 25 billion baht as part of the debt-rehabilitation program, Chief Financial Officer Chai Eamsiri said. The Central Bankruptcy ...

Bloomberg Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd, the developer of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, won pre-order contracts of as much as $4 billion as it plans to go public through a merger with a blank-check company. American Airlines Group Inc, Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd and aircraft lessor Avolon Holdings Ltd agreed to buy as many as 1,000 of the vertical ...