Aviation

Bloomberg British Airways owner IAG SA warned that challenges facing the European airline industry are set to continue into 2020 after cutting profit guidance for this year. IAG lowered capacity growth in the final quarter and will provide details in November of a decrease next year, Chief Executive Officer Willie Walsh said on a call with analysts. Earnings for this ...

Bloomberg TUI AG is taking steps to expand its winter jetliner fleet to meet increasing demand for package holidays following the collapse of UK rival Thomas Cook Group Plc. The world’s biggest tour operator is working to retain leased aircraft it has been operating through the summer in preparation for an anticipated surge in bookings, Chief Executive Officer Fritz Joussen ...

Bloomberg Just five years ago, Daxing was a dusty area of farmland to the south of Beijing, largely neglected by visitors to the city. That’s no longer the case, now that an enormous airport has emerged there to thrust China even closer to toppling the US as the world’s biggest aviation market. Beijing Daxing International Airport, an 80 billion yuan ...

Bloomberg Indian budget carrier SpiceJet Ltd plans to sell shares in its logistics business in an initial public offering, as the rise of e-commerce drives demand for fast shipping across the region. The one-year-old cargo division, known as SpiceXpress, could be listed on a stock exchange within 12 months, SpiceJet Chairman Ajay Singh said in an interview at Bloomberg’s New ...

Bloomberg German airline Condor’s request for emergency financing was granted by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government in a bid to get the tourist carrier through the winter after the demise of UK parent Thomas Cook Group Plc. The bridging loan worth 380 million euros ($420 million) must be approved by the European Commission and will be valid for six months, according ...

Bloomberg The top US aviation regulator briefed his counterparts from around the world on the grounded Boeing Co 737 Max, reminding them that improvements in both aircraft design and piloting are needed for safety. Newly installed FAA Administrator Steve Dickson pledged in his opening statement to continue sharing information as the agency assesses Boeing’s proposed fixes for a flight-control system ...

Bloomberg Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways expects to raise about $100 million from its planned initial public offering next year to fuel its aggressive expansion in one of the world’s fastest-growing aviation markets. “The fundraising will help us to expand our fleet as we want to take 30 percent of the domestic market next year,” Trinh Van Quyet, the Hanoi-based chairman of ...

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said it fired two crew members at a unit as part of an investigation into why depleted emergency oxygen bottles are turning up on its flights. Cathay Dragon detected an emergency oxygen bottle in a “low-pressure state” on a September 21 flight to Hong Kong from Kuala Lumpur, it said in a statement. All cabin ...

Bloomberg When Thomas Cook Group Plc began dangerously hurtling toward collapse early last week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ordered up a contingency plan: Operation Matterhorn. The effort aimed to safeguard the return of UK tourists should the company indeed go under. But the massive undertaking also betrayed the thinking that had taken root in the Brexit-hardened cabinet: that the company ...

Bloomberg The German government is mulling a request for an emergency loan by Thomas Cook Group Plc’s Condor subsidiary as Deutsche Lufthansa AG remains tight-lipped on the fate of a unit it bid for earlier this year. Germany’s Economy Ministry on Monday said it is assessing Condor Flugdienst GmbH’s request for a bridge loan after its parent company collapsed under ...