Aviation

Bloomberg TUI AG stuck with plans to offer four-fifths of its usual holiday program this summer, betting on a surge in demand from Britain to fill hotel rooms as the country’s Covid-19 vaccination program gathers pace. The world’s biggest tour operator said in a statement on Tuesday that while current sales are at only 56% of 2019 levels, prices are ...

Bloomberg Air France-KLM’s Dutch arm operated a passenger flight from Amsterdam to Madrid that the carrier says was the first in the world to use sustainably derived synthetic aviation fuel. The Boeing Co 737-800 narrow-body plane carried 500 litres of the fuel produced by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, equating to more than 5% of the total requirement for the trip, ...

Bloomberg Kenya Airways Plc increased cargo capacity after its rival, Ethiopian Airlines, was allowed to deploy more freighters to help carry Kenyan flowers to Europe ahead of Valentine’s Day this weekend. The Kenyan airline adapted a passenger Boeing 787 Dreamliner to start carrying cargo, and help meet more flower orders. The conversion and increased flight frequencies will add as much ...

Bloomberg British Airways is partnering with LanzaJet for sustainable aviation fuel as part of the carrier’s plans to decarbonise by 2050, amid rising pressure on the aviation industry to cut emissions. The US startup will supply ethanol-derived fuel from its Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia, and British Airways will use it to power some flights starting in late 2022, ...

Bloomberg Basketball legend Kobe Bryant’s death as his chartered helicopter crashed in a Southern California fog bank last year highlighted some familiar — and preventable — safety concerns. They include questionable decisions about whether to take the flight and to proceed in deteriorating weather; possible pressure to fly with a celebrity passenger; and a pilot who hadn’t practiced flying in ...

Bloomberg The UK will require travellers arriving from coronavirus hot spots to quarantine in hotels starting February 15, almost three weeks after the plan was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Arrivals from countries on the UK’s travel ban list will be required to isolate for 10 days in government-approved accommodation, the Department for Health and Social Care said in ...

Bloomberg Countries could relax border controls and allow more travel if there’s a set of standards for vaccine certification that immigration authorities can use to help determine entry policies, Singapore Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung said. “That is really the light at the end of the long tunnel,” Ong said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Monday. “With vaccination ...

Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc plans to shutter civil aerospace production for two weeks over the summer, cutting pay for 19,000 workers as the coronavirus crisis stunts demand for airliner engines. The measures relate to negotiations with unions announced last summer and will affect 12,500 people in the UK, where Rolls-Royce is based, a spokesman said. The salary reduction will be ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s bid to tap a revival in tourism once coronavirus lockdowns ease has put the German giant on a collision course with its former leisure arm, Condor. Lufthansa is using surplus long-haul jets to target sunspots such as Mauritius, the Dominican Republic and Namibia that are expected to recover before the airline’s bedrock corporate markets. As a ...

Bloomberg London’s Heathrow airport may be allowed to raise airline fees on a limited basis after Britain’s aviation regulator dismissed the hub’s pitch for a more substantial hike during the coronavirus pandemic. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it plans to reject Heathrow’s proposal, which the airport reckons would lift fares by 1.20 pounds ($1.44) per passenger, as disproportionate and ...