Aviation

Bloomberg Philippine Airlines Inc and Cebu Air Inc have suspended their Taiwan flights after the Southeast Asian nation expanded its travel ban on the novel coronavirus. The order temporary barring the entry and departure of foreign nationals from China, Hong Kong and Macau will also cover Taiwan, the Bureau of Immigration said. Both carriers suspended the Taiwan flights starting from ...

Bloomberg Embraer SA’s top salesman expressed his concerns about European Union (EU) regulators for holding up an agreement to sell the company’s commercial plane business to Boeing Co. “I am better at supporting my team in designing and building and selling new aircraft than I am at the tedious environment or the structured environment of going through antitrust approval,” John ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE is in talks to buy out Bombardier Inc’s stake in the A220 jetliner program, according to people familiar with the matter. The negotiations between the companies are at an advanced stage, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The deal could be announced as early as this week, with both ...

Bloomberg NASA is reviewing Boeing Co’s software engineering, and it doesn’t like what it sees. Lurking behind 1 million lines of code for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lies a deficient development process that led to two software flaws during a failed test flight, the US space agency said. The “critical software defects” — either of which could have caused the ...

Bloomberg Wind filled the highest ever portion of Britain’s electricity needs as Storm Ciara moved across the country, disrupting power supplies, interrupting transport and forcing soccer matches to be postponed. High winds also helped shorten the flying time from North America to Europe. British Airways flight 112 became the fastest ever subsonic passenger flight from New York to London, at ...

Bloomberg Bombardier Inc has Quebec in a bind again. As the debt-laden plane and train maker explores selling one of its core businesses and exiting a jetliner venture with Airbus SE, its home province is feeling the need to get involved again — but not at any cost. Unwilling to add to the $1 billion his predecessor invested in the ...

Bloomberg Administrators for South Africa’s loss-making state airline have defended their decision to cut routes as part of a turnaround plan, after objections from President Cyril Ramaphosa, government and labor unions. South African Airways (SAA) will halt service to nine international cities, including Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, and cease all local services except those between Johannesburg and Cape Town. ...

Bloomberg Myanmar’s largest private-sector airline said the novel coronavirus outbreak is likely to have an impact on its operations until April. The airline, Myanmar Airways International-Air KBZ Group, has temporarily suspended all routes to mainland China as well as Taiwan, Commercial Director Tanes Kumar said in an interview. “We had to shift some priorities within our strategy due to the ...

Bloomberg The area near Los Angeles where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed was blanketed by a thick layer of clouds and the craft’s engines were operating as it plummeted, a newly released report shows. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released several photographs provided by government agencies and individuals depicting the first hard evidence confirming early witness reports that the aircraft ...

Bloomberg Breeze Airways, the latest offspring of serial airline entrepreneur David Neeleman, will start flying later this year with a fleet that will put his low-cost plans to the test. The new airline is standing by its early pledge to fly where it won’t face competitors and operate on days and times of highest demand, Neeleman said in an interview. ...