Aviation

Bloomberg The rollout of vaccines against Covid-19 has intensified debate about whether they should be made mandatory, with the head of a major tourism lobby saying that doing so would cause irreparable harm to the struggling sector. “I don’t think governments will require vaccination next year” for travel, Gloria Guevara, head of the World Travel and Tourism Council, said at …

Bloomberg Canadian transportation authorities validated changes to Boeing Co’s 737 Max ordered by US regulators, putting the jetliner a step closer to flying again in the northern nation. In a statement, Transport Canada said it has completed its review of design fixes mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration in November — calling it “an important first step” towards re-certification. The …

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd carried just 37,815 passengers in November, down 98.6% from a year earlier, and warned that its second-half losses will be significantly worse than the HK$9.9 billion ($1.3 billion) hemorrhage in the first six months. Average passenger capacity in the second half is only likely to be 8.4% of pre-pandemic levels, compared with 34.3% in the …

Bloomberg Airbus SE Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury said a UK split from the European Union without a trade deal could threaten the planemaker’s investment plans in the country. Decisions would be made based on how easy it is to conduct business after Brexit, he said at the Conference of Montreal. In the meantime, the company has no plans to …

Bloomberg Qantas Airways Ltd’s low-cost carrier Jetstar said it will operate a record number of flights in Australia early next year as demand rebounds to higher than pre-pandemic levels. With fewer than 50 active Covid-19 cases, Australia is experiencing a domestic holiday boom as internal travel restrictions ease. The scale of the recovery suggests air passenger traffic, which has been …

Bloomberg Air India Ltd has received early bids from the Tata Group and a cohort of its own employees as the government tries to rescue its loss-making flag carrier. Tata Sons Ltd, the holding company of the conglomerate that controls Jaguar Land Rover and part-owns Air Asia Co’s Indian unit, has submitted an expression of interest, according to people with …

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co won a deal to issue cards in the US for Air Canada, the bank’s first new co-brand card partner in more than a decade. The companies plan to introduce the airline’s Aeroplan credit card in late 2021, using the Mastercard Inc network. The expectation is that air travel will have begun to recover by then …

Bloomberg London’s Heathrow airport is waiting for a ruling from the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday that could give it permission to build a third runway that it may no longer need. An appeals court ruled in February that the government failed to take full account of the Paris Climate Agreement when approving the airport’s expansion. Heathrow was allowed to …

Bloomberg The Nordic region’s pace-setting push into green transport is set to extend from cars to the air-travel market. Iceland this month signalled plans to move towards carbon-free domestic flights by the end of the decade, while Sweden’s Heart Aerospace aims to deliver an electric plane specifically designed to ply routes linking remote Scandinavian settlements within six years. Coordinating the …

Bloomberg British Airways will work with hydrogen plane startup ZeroAvia to speed the switch to hydrogen power for commercial aircraft. The partnership was announced, as the head of parent IAG SA prepared to outline the group’s plan to reach net-zero emissions at a United Nations climate summit. The legacy airline will work with the startup, which has already demonstrated a …