Aviation

Boeing stages 30% Nov rally on 737 Max return, vaccine hope

Bloomberg Boeing Co, the biggest laggard on the Dow Jones Industrial Average this year through October, is turning the tables in November with a 30% gain. The shares are surging this month on the impending return of its 737 Max jet and promising vaccine trials from Pfizer Inc that suggest an eventual rebound in the depressed market for jetliners. Another ...

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Norwegian in crisis as state denies ‘rescue’

Bloomberg Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA risks becoming a casualty of the global aviation crisis after the state rejected a request for a second multi-billion krone rescue package. A fresh bailout wouldn’t be a good use of public funds, the government in Oslo said, leaving the discount carrier in need of help to weather the winter months as air travel remains ...

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EU tariffs on US-made jets may affect Ryanair’s Max order

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc’s long-delayed Boeing Co 737 Max deliveries face a new hurdle after the European Union opted to apply tariffs to US-made aircraft. The European bloc said it would levy 15% tariffs on US jets, alongside other goods including wheat, cheese, etc. Dublin-based Ryanair, the continent’s biggest discount carrier, has more than 135 Max 200 jets on order, ...

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American to revive flying long haul

Bloomberg American Airlines is resuming much of its short-distance service to Latin America and starting to bring back longer flights over the next few weeks, building off of its dominance in the region among US rivals. South America is the strongest part of American’s long-haul system amid the coronavirus pandemic “when, admittedly, all of it is relatively weak,” Chief Revenue ...

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Singapore Airlines reports biggest-ever quarterly loss

Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd posted its biggest ever quarterly loss as the coronavirus decimated travel demand and fuel hedging and fleet impairment charges weighed on its bottom line. The carrier reported a net loss of S$2.3 billion ($1.7 billion) for the three months ended on September 30 versus a S$94.5 million profit the same period a year ago, before Covid-19 ...

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EasyJet sells jets to raise cash reserves

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc boosted cash reserves via a new round of aircraft sales as a wave of coronavirus lockdowns pushes it to deepen capacity cuts. Britain’s biggest discount carrier raised $169.5 million through the sale of 11 Airbus SE jets, which it will lease back, according to a statement. The move takes the number of planes involved in such transactions ...

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Southwest warns workers of first layoffs in company history

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co issued notices for what could be the first involuntary furloughs in its 49-year history, saying a union declined to discuss concessions aimed at cutting payroll costs. Forty-two workers who manage parts inventory and are represented by the Teamsters union received federally required notices that they could be laid off as of January 11, the Dallas-based airline ...

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JetBlue Air adds NY trips during thanksgiving

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp is adding flights from the New York area during Thanksgiving week in a bid to tap an uptick in demand amid the coronavirus pandemic, just as Governor Andrew Cuomo is beefing up enforcement of quarantine restrictions. The 25 nonstop flights will operate between November 20 and November 30 from New York’s John F Kennedy International as ...

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Ryanair braces for deepening losses from new lockdowns

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc said losses are set to worsen this winter as a new wave of coronavirus lockdowns frustrates attempts to bring back flights at Europe’s biggest discount carrier. The shortfall in the fiscal second half, which began on October 1, is set to exceed the 197 million-euro ($229 million) loss of the first six months, Ryanair said in ...

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Unions seek changes to 737 Max training

Bloomberg Pilot unions and families of those killed in a crash of Boeing Co’s 737 Max are asking for revisions to proposed new training for the grounded jetliner. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) proposed new training module and emergency checklists for the Max are “clunky at best” and should be streamlined, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association said in comments filed ...

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