Aviation

BLOOMBERG Airlines should financially reward managers who hire more women, said the International Aviation Womens Association (IAWA), after industry data showed almost zero progress towards gender parity in the past four years. Women typically hold just 13% of executive posts at carriers, even fewer than in financial services firms, Bloomberg analysis showed last month. The proportion of female pilots, technicians ...

BLOOMBERG Delta Air Lines Inc and United Airlines Holdings Inc are offering to trim flights by as much as 10% at some of the country’s busiest airports this summer to ease congestion and delays — but only in return for a promise from federal regulators that they can get them back. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has reached out to ...

BLOOMBERG The European Union (EU) will put forward rules outlining how some aircraft can be considered climate-friendly under the region’s green rulebook, offering a roadmap towards a cleaner future for an industry that’s traditionally had a huge carbon footprint. The commission, the bloc’s executive branch, will propose adding aircraft manufacturing and leasing to the bloc’s green taxonomy if they meet ...

BLOOMBERG IndiGo, India’s top airline with an operational fleet of 302 aircraft and an order book of nearly 500 jets, has ample capacity to fuel its growth as well as take on intensifying competition, according to its top executive. “IndiGo is in a very good spot,” Pieter Elbers, chief executive officer of InterGlobe Aviation Ltd said in an interview at ...

BLOOMBERG Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc said it’s targeting “an incremental resumption of operations” after temporarily halting activities in the wake of a failed satellite launch a few months ago that threw the ambitious space program off course. “Our first step will begin on Thursday of this week, when we plan to return a subset of our team to focus on ...

BLOOMBERG  Air India Ltd is in talks with banks to help fund its recently announced record aircraft order, benefitting from the support of new owner Tata Sons Ltd, the carrier’s chief executive officer said. “We have the backing of Tata Sons, so there is financing available for these aircraft,” CEO Campbell Wilson said in an interview with Bloomberg News on ...

BLOOMBERG Canadian holidaymakers jetting south for spring break on red-eye flights with Flair Airlines Ltd were in for a surprise when the Boeing Co 737s they were about to board were seized by agents acting on behalf of a jet leasing firm that manages the planes. The episode emerged from a $50 million lawsuit filed by Flair in the Ontario ...

BLOOMBERG Aéroports de Paris (ADP) and GMR Airports Infrastructure Ltd agreed to fold their joint-venture company into GMR, giving ADP a liquid stake in a business that owns airfields in India. ADP and GMR Airports Infrastructure own 49% and 51%, respectively, of the unlisted GMR Airports Ltd, according to a statement from the French company, which operates Paris’s Charles de ...

BLOOMBERG India will spend about 980 billion rupees ($12 billion) over the next two years on airports, with airline orders for hundreds of new planes to meet resurgent travel demand putting pressure on existing infrastructure. The world’s fastest-growing aviation market aims to boost the number of airports to 220 by 2025 from the current 148, for which private builders will ...

BLOOMBERG London Heathrow stands to suffer severe disruptions during the busy Easter travel period after some workers at the airport voted in favour of walkouts, the latest flareup in the country that has seen months of strikes over pay amid a cost of living crisis. More than 1,400 security workers at the hub voted in favour of 10 days of ...