Aviation

Bloomberg New climate protection surcharges on German air travel will begin in April, giving passengers a temporary reprieve before tickets become more expensive and providing airlines time to adjust pricing. Lifting surcharges is an element of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plan to nudge consumers to opt for trains instead of planes, above all in domestic travel. The increased fees are aimed ...

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co’s pilots don’t expect to see Boeing Co’s 737 Max resume flights until February “at least,” given work still to be done in a process fraught with safety concerns and politics. That’s well beyond the January 6 date the carrier has set for the grounded plane to be back in its schedule. But ending a global flying ...

Bloomberg Veteran litigator Dan Webb has joined Boeing Co’s legal team to defend the company in cases related to the deadly Lion Air 737 Max crash in October 2018, according to a court filing in Chicago. Webb will work with lawyers at Seattle-based Perkins & Coie LLP on nearly 60 lawsuits brought on behalf of victims Lion Air Flight 610, ...

Bloomberg For decades, travellers have stoically endured jet lag as an unavoidable menace on long journeys. Now, as airlines push for record-breaking non-stop flights halfway around the planet, efforts to counter the debilitating symptoms are turning into a billion-dollar industry. Fresh insight into the physical and emotional toll of ultra-long haul travel should emerge when Qantas Airways Ltd flies direct ...

Bloomberg A face-off between the US and European Union over jetliner tariffs risks making travel more expensive for passengers, the world’s biggest long-haul airline has warned. Tit-for-tat import duties on Boeing Co and Airbus SE planes would ultimately increase the cost of the aircraft and hence also fares, Emirates President Tim Clark said on Monday in Dubai, where the carrier ...

Bloomberg The World Trade Organization on on Monday formally authorised the US to impose tariffs on about $7.5 billion worth of European exports annually in retaliation for illegal government aid to Airbus. Members approved this month’s arbitration award — the largest in the trade organisation’s history — at a special meeting of the dispute settlement body at the WTO’s headquarters ...

Bloomberg Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways expects a market capitalisation of as much as $1 billion at its planned listing in the first quarter next year. The startup carrier plans to list about 400 million shares on either the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange or Hanoi Stock Exchange as early as January, Deputy Chief Executive Officer Nguyen Khac Hai said in ...

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc gave up on carrying passengers on Boeing Co’s 737 Max this year, removing the grounded jet from its schedule until January 6. The carrier, which had previously pulled the aircraft until Decmber 19, is cancelling more than 8,000 flights from October through early January as its 14 Max aircraft remain banned from flying. Boeing’s best-selling ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co stripped Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg of his role as chairman, leaving him little margin for error in his final push to resolve the crisis engulfing the company’s 737 Max jetliner. Separating the CEO and chairman roles will let Muilenburg focus on getting the grounded jet back in the air, Boeing said in a statement. While the ...

Bloomberg Following the collapse of travel company Thomas Cook Group Plc, the UK government plans to change the law to allow failed airlines to keep flying in order to rescue stranded passengers. The tour operator’s bankruptcy last month forced the Civil Aviation Authority to deploy more than 150 planes to bring home 140,000 people, an airlift that cost about twice ...