Aviation

Bloomberg Coronavirus has reached UK’s busiest airport, after two British Airways baggage handlers at London Heathrow tested positive for the disease. The affected workers are recovering in isolation at home, British Airways parent IAG SA said in an email. A small number of the luggage handlers’ colleagues are also being tested, a person familiar with the matter said. The outbreak’s ...

Bloomberg One year after losing his wife in the Boeing Co 737 Max crash in Ethiopia, it’s the lack of information about what happened that is prolonging Bayihe Demissie’s grief. More than 500 family members of victims of the disaster will gather at the crash site outside the capital, Addis Ababa, to commemorate the first anniversary of the tragedy. As ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE is considering a cut in A330neo jet production after the wide-body’s biggest customer said a coronavirus-driven slump in travel had forced it to defer deliveries, according to people familiar with the matter. The planemaker may make a decision as soon as this month, the people said, asking not to be identified because the deliberations are private. In ...

Bloomberg The coronavirus outbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time for PT Garuda Indonesia, pummeling demand at the flag carrier just as it faces a debt bill for half a billion dollars. Debt market concern about sagging travel demand and the impact of financial market turmoil has caused Garuda’s $500 million notes due on June 3 to tumble to ...

Bloomberg An outbreak of four coronavirus cases tied to a Vietnam Airlines flight from London to Hanoi triggered hoarding in the Southeast Asian country’s capital, the lockdown of a central city neighbourhood and the home quarantine of an investment minister aboard the aircraft. A growing sense that the virus may be bypassing Vietnam, which hadn’t reported an official case in ...

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will suspend flights to and from Japan for three weeks after the Japanese government tightened quarantine rules on people arriving from Hong Kong. Flights to and from Hong Kong and four Japanese airports and cities — Tokyo’s Haneda airport, Fukuoka, Nagoya and Sapporo — will stop from Monday until March 28, and halted for Narita ...

Bloomberg The UK will withdraw as a member state of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) after December 31, Aviation Week reported, citing an interview with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. “We will leave EASA,” Shapps said in the interview. “A lot of the expertise they have is UK expertise, in fact. A lot of the key leading lights were ...

Bloomberg UK airline Flybe collapsed into administration after failing to secure a last-ditch bailout from the government, leaving no other option than to ground the regional carrier serving far-flung parts of the UK. Britain’s largest domestic airline had been teetering for months. It avoided liquidation in January, when Boris Johnson’s government came out in support of state intervention and its ...

Bloomberg Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA withdrew its financial guidance for 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak wreaks havoc on the airline industry. The troubled Nordic carrier said it can no longer stand by the goals it gave investors less than a month ago, adding to the list of airlines warning of the impact of the epidemic that has led to lower ...

Bloomberg While the novel coronavirus has killed thousands and roiled economies, there’s been an unlikely upside for air travel in the US. Passengers flying in America now have more cabin space as airlines are deploying wide-body aircraft domestically because demand for international routes has slumped, according to OAG Aviation Worldwide. “Such short-term fleet changes create great opportunities for the regular ...