Aviation

Bloomberg South Africa Airways (SAA) extended flight cancellations to four days as a strike over pay and job cuts at the loss-making state carrier got under way. Regional and domestic routes will remain suspended through Monday, two days longer than previously announced, the airline said in an emailed statement. International services will resume on November 17, it said. Two labour ...

Bloomberg Qantas Airways said Boeing has offered a stopgap deal in a bid to persuade the airline to select its delayed 777X plane for planned direct flights from Australia to New York and London. Boeing pitched the workaround as it grapples with holdups to the upgraded 777, Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce said in an interview in London, declining to ...

Bloomberg Wizz Air Holdings Plc, Europe’s fastest-growing low-cost airline, escalated a spat with full-service rivals over carbon emissions, saying their reliance on lucrative business-class fares is at the heart of the industry’s problems with environmental campaigners. Airlines like Deutsche Lufthansa AG, which has attacked discounters for stimulating non-vital travel, rely on transporting corporate flyers in heavy seats with a CO2 ...

Bloomberg Sales for Boeing Co’s grounded 737 Max slipped in October after a prominent customer converted some of its orders for the narrow-body jet to twin-aisle 787 Dreamliners. Boeing’s unfilled 737 order backlog, adjusted for accounting considerations, shrank by 19 aircraft during the month to 4,387 jets, the Chicago-based planemaker revealed on its website. The planemaker garnered negative 93 orders ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp, bowing to rising competitive pressures, began offering a no-frills option in the first revamp of its fare categories since they were introduced in 2015. Customers buying a reduced Blue Basic fare won’t get a refund if they have to cancel, can’t make changes to the reservation and will have to board last — standards that match ...

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd issued its second profit warning in less than a month as Hong Kong’s flag carrier continues to struggle from a slumping number of visitors because of the protests that have gripped the city for months. Second-half financial results will be “significantly” lower than in the first, Cathay said in a statement on Wednesday. The language ...

Bloomberg A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official wrote a memo last month saying that Southwest Airlines Co should ground 49 of its airliners because repairs were performed that didn’t meet legal standards. There is “a high likelihood of a violation of a regulation, order or standard” of the FAA, and the US regulator needs to take immediate action to revoke ...

Bloomberg South African Airways (SAA) has started a restructuring process that could see the cash-strapped state-owned carrier cut its workforce by almost a fifth. As required by South African law, the airline has started talks with labour unions about its plans, which could affect 944 of its 5,149 employees, SAA said in an emailed statement. The proposed reorganisation includes all ...

Bloomberg Malaysia’s aviation-safety downgrade makes Asia the region with the most markets where airlines are restricted from US airspace. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cut Malaysia to a Category 2 nation, banning the country’s carriers from setting up new flights to anywhere between New York and San Francisco. It cited deficiencies by the nation’s civil-aviation authority in areas ranging ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co said one of the first revamped General Electric Co engines intended to power its 777X flight-test aircraft was damaged during a freak shipping accident last month. While the incident isn’t expected to create a new delay for the 777X, it does add to a string of mishaps to confound Boeing’s newest model. The 777X is already behind ...