Aviation

Bloomberg Air Botswana plans to reduce its workforce to 210 from 450 to prepare for the government’s latest attempt to privatise the loss-making state-owned carrier. The job cuts will come from separating the ground-handling operation into a new unit that could then be sold to private-equity firms, chairman Tebogo Masire told reporters in Gaborone. “Air Botswana must be lean and ...

Bloomberg De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd won its biggest plane orders since the brand was sold off by Bombardier Inc with the sale of as many as 23 Dash 8-400 turboprops. The manufacturer, an aviation pioneer long overtaken by the jet age, said at the Dubai Airshow that it a signed a letter of intent with lessor Palma Holding ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc ordered a dozen Airbus SE narrow-body jetliners to fuel long-term growth while reining in more immediate expansion plans by trimming capacity and pushing back another set of aircraft deliveries. Europe’s second-biggest discount airline converted options to firm purchases for the A320neo planes worth $1.33 billion at list prices, it said in a statement. Delivery is set for ...

Bloomberg Global aviation regulators have yet to formulate a unified approach to getting the grounded Boeing 737 Max jet back into service after two fatal crashes, a division that risks undermining public trust in the industry’s safety record, according to Alexandre de Juniac, the head of the IATA association of global airlines. “The point on which we have to pay ...

Bloomberg Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd is in talks with Boeing Co to buy more 737 Max aircraft to feed its expansion plans, a deal that could mark a Dubai Airshow coup for the grounded narrow-body. A sales lull for the Max, idled globally since March, allows SpiceJet to acquire planes at a lower cost, Chairman Ajay Singh said in ...

Bloomberg The Latin America aviation market will more than double in 20 years as Brazil’s economy recovers and discount carriers boost demand, driving a need for 2,960 new planes, according to Boeing Co. “Low-cost carriers have really been the engine of growth in Latin America,” Darren Hulst, Boeing’s managing director for market analysis & sales support, said in Sao Paulo. ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury said the latest Brexit deal between Britain and European Union should pave the way for the aerospace giant to carry on making plane wings in the UK. The British division, which employs 14,000 people and supports 110,000 supplier jobs, is “very competitive” and will remain a focus for wing production so long ...

Bloomberg Qantas Airways Ltd denied that one of its flight attendants discriminated against will.i.am after the co-founder of the Black Eyed Peas tweeted his grievances over an incident involving his laptop. The seven-time Grammy winner tweeted that a flight attendant called the police on him for not stowing away his laptop during a flight to Sydney from Brisbane. The artist, ...

Bloomberg Days after Stanley Deal took the helm of Boeing Co’s jetliner business last month, he was winging across the globe to meet with the airline bosses most shaken by the deadly crashes that have plunged the manufacturer into crisis. Deal spent the October 29 anniversary of the first of two 737 Max crashes with Rusdi Kirana, founder of Indonesia’s ...

Bloomberg South African Airways (SAA) officials will be summoned to a meeting with regulators next month to disclose details about talks with potential equity partners and give assurances that any deal won’t violate foreign-ownership laws. Under the Air Services Licensing Act of 1990, airlines must be at least three-quarters owned by South Africans to operate a domestic service. That would ...