Aviation

Bloomberg Boeing Co. leaders were stunned by a barrage of negative articles after a 737 Max plunged into the Java Sea in October 2018, killing all aboard, according to internal communications. The messages, under court order, show that executives and board directors worried about media coverage and indications that pilots on the Lion Air flight were caught unaware by an ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. is making payments to management employees to help offset reductions imposed a year ago when the burgeoning coronavirus pandemic decimated travel demand and prompted workers to take unpaid leave or retire early to help slash spending. The carrier is making the payouts after accepting billions of dollars in federal aid dedicated to preventing broad involuntary ...

Bloomberg The number of Boeing Co. 737 Max jets back in service has now topped 100 as airlines in the US, Brazil and Europe add more flights with the re-certified jet. More than 1,300 flights were logged in the week through March 3, with American Airlines Group Inc. operating almost 400 flights, according to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium. ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is seeking to profit from UK’s plans to exit lockdown, with its Eurowings subsidiary to offer flights from the UK to Mallorca for the first time as Germany’s coronavirus vaccine rollout sputters. Eurowings will initially fly vacationers from Birmingham and Manchester to the Spanish island and back twice a week starting at the end of May, ...

Bloomberg Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. tumbled after its billionaire Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya offloaded shares worth about $213 million in the space-tourism company founded by Richard Branson. Palihapitiya, who has helped drive the frenzied growth of blank-check companies, disposed of 6.2 million shares at an average price of $34.32 this week, based on a filing with the US Securities and Exchange ...

Bloomberg Discussion on the future of cash-strapped Alitalia entered a crucial phase, as talks with European authorities resumed, an early test of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s relationship with Brussels. The Italian government and the European Commission agreed to “work constructively together to find workable solutions on the Alitalia file,” a Commission spokesman said after Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE suffered a surge in order cancellations last month as Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA scrapped narrow-body jet purchases and a wave of coronavirus lockdowns pushed back expectations for a revival in air travel. The European planemaker lost 92 commitments in February, it said in a statement, 88 of them from the Scandinavian discounter, which is seeking to restructure ...

Bloomberg Mauritius has stopped inbound commercial flights, until further notice, after six local Covid-19 cases were detected over two days, Health Minister Kailesh Jagutpal said. The objective of the move is to free up space for people to be placed in quarantine following a contact-tracing process, Jagutpal told reporters in the capital, Port Louis. The suspension of flights would provide ...

Bloomberg The European Union (EU) and the US agreed to suspend tariffs on billions of dollars of each other’s products, easing a 17-year transatlantic dispute over illegal aid to the world’s biggest aircraft makers. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed to the move on a call, the commission said in a statement. “This suspension ...

Bloomberg Malaysian budget airline AirAsia Group Bhd. said it is seeking to launch a flying-taxi business as soon as next year. “We are working on that right now,” Tony Fernandes, the company’s chief executive officer and co-founder, said. “I think we are about a year and a half away from launching.” Fernandes was speaking in an online discussion as part ...