Aviation

Bloomberg South Africa’s government ruled out an intervention in the ongoing battle between the struggling state airline and unions leading a strike, with public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan refusing to step in to fund wage demands. The state has already given South African Airways (SAA) more than $1.4 billion over the past three years, Gordhan said in an emailed statement. ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc plans to become the first carrier to offset carbon emissions from all its flights as the aviation industry responds to a growing outcry over its contribution to climate change. “It’s not to say that this is the perfect solution, we know it’s an interim step before new technologies come into play,” CEO Johan Lundgren told Bloomberg TV. ...

Bloomberg The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended that the Boeing Co 737 NG (Next Generation) be redesigned to prevent a repeat of a fatal accident last year in which an engine part broke off in flight, killing a passenger. More than 7,000 so-called 737 Next Generation planes could be affected by the recommendation that the inlet to the ...

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 ...