Aviation

Bloomberg The UK’s fluctuating quarantine restrictions are again leading to punishing airfares for vacationers forced to rush home on short notice. Travellers scrambling to return from Portugal before a rule requiring self-isolation kicks in on Saturday faced paying more than $640 for a one-way ticket, based on fares from both British Airways Plc and Jet2holidays Ltd. Airlines have been vocal ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co’s grounded 737 Max jetliner completed a round of test flights with European air-safety regulators, taking another step towards a return to the skies. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will now evaluate data from the trips, it said in a statement. The agency, based in Cologne, Germany, performed the flights from Vancouver, near Boeing’s Seattle-area operations, ...

Bloomberg The Philippines has eased distancing rules in public transport, allowing trains and planes to have more passengers amid the region’s worst coronavirus outbreak, the Department of Transportation said. The agency and economic managers’ proposal to increase public transport ridership and accommodate more people going back to work was approved by the government’s coronavirus task force, Transport Secretary Arthur Tugade ...

Bloomberg Almost every Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner may have a newly disclosed manufacturing flaw in its horizontal stabiliser, said a person familiar with the matter. While Boeing says the issue doesn’t pose an immediate hazard, engineers are studying whether the fault could prematurely age the jets’ carbon-fiber structure. Improper gaps in the stabiliser, the small wing in the aircraft tail, ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary lashed out at governments over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying an ineffective response to the crisis had added to the difficulties of struggling airlines. Leaders in the UK and Ireland are focussed on the wrong data with the daily coronavirus case rate and should put more effort towards test-and-trace programs to ...

Bloomberg China’s biggest airshow, which takes place every two years in the southern city of Zhuhai, has been canceled due to the coronavirus, according to a statement Wednesday. The China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition was due to take place from November 10-15 and feature industry giants including Boeing Co and Airbus SE. The biennial show first took place in ...

Bloomberg US airline passenger traffic reached new heights over the Labor Day holiday, flirting with a daily total of nearly 1 million fliers for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic erupted. On September 4, 968,673 people passed through security screening portals at US airports, the Transportation Security Administration said. That was 44.1% of the equivalent day last year, the ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE delivered 39 jets last month while avoiding order cancellations as it battles to keep revenue flowing in a market battered by the coronavirus crisis. August handovers comprised 35 A320-series narrow-body planes and four twin-aisle jets, the Toulouse, France-based company said. The overall tally is down 10 planes from July. Boeing Co said it delivered 13 planes in ...

Bloomberg British pilots already fearing for their jobs as the coronavirus crisis hammers air travel face a new risk as a potential no-deal Brexit threatens to deprive them of the right to fly EU-registered planes. With the UK’s split from the EU set to be completed on December 31, there’s no agreement in place that would allow aviators holding UK ...

Bloomberg Headrest canopies and fabric barriers between seats could start appearing in airplane cabins as the embattled industry tries to ward off the coronavirus. Airlines desperate for governments to lift travel restrictions and passengers to return are looking at ways to reassure the public that their health won’t be compromised on a flight. New-look seats and fresh cabins could be ...