Aviation

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary gave a pessimistic outlook for the resumption by Boeing Co of deliveries of its grounded 737 Max, saying the carrier has frozen payments to the manufacturer and started talks on recouping costs of the delay. Deliveries of the aircraft will likely slip “another couple of months” to March or April, he ...

Bloomberg British Airways pilots scrapped a planned one-day walkout scheduled for later this month to pursue “meaningful new discussions” as the union sought to end a deadlock over wages. The British Airline Pilots’ Association said it was calling off the September 27 action “before the dispute escalates further and irreparable damage is done to the brand,” and demanded the carrier ...

Bloomberg PT Lion Mentari Airlines, Indonesia’s biggest private carrier, is investigating a breach that led to personal data of passengers on its Malaysian and Thai units being leaked online. Malindo Airways’s passenger information, which is hosted on cloud-based services, may have been compromised, the carrier said in a statement. Malindo is working with its data service provider Amazon Web Services ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines is funding a study to see if twigs, branches and other wood debris can create jet fuel to help fly its West Coast planes. The airline invested $2 million to partner with Northwest Advanced Bio-fuels LLC to study the feasibility of a bio-fuel production facility in Washington that could create fuel out of forest debris, the ...

Bloomberg US aviation regulators are calling for a meeting with their counterparts from about 50 other countries to discuss progress on returning Boeing Co’s grounded 737 Max to service as some nations have begun saying they will perform independent assessments of the plane. The Federal Aviation Administration sent a letter to regulators around the world asking them to an “informal ...

Bloomberg Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd will add 84 destinations including Beijing, Buenos Aires and Sydney if the expansion of London’s Heathrow airport is accompanied by a shakeup in the way operating slots are allocated. The airline would like to serve 35 new long-haul destinations from Europe’s busiest hub, on top of the 19 it offers, plus 37 cities in continental ...

Bloomberg Kenya Airways Plc sent acting Chief Financial Officer Hellen Mwariri on compulsory leave, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Mwariri is under investigation by the board for allegedly leaking sensitive company information, two of the people said. She did not respond to a text message request for comment and calls to her mobile phone didn’t connect. ...

Bloomberg China will need to spend $2.9 trillion on new aircraft and ground services over the next two decades, according to Boeing Co, which continues to pin hopes on the world’s second-largest economy as its trade dispute with the US rolls on. The estimate, released in Boeing’s annual outlook on China’s commercial aviation market, is 7 percent higher than last ...

Bloomberg Thomas Cook Group Plc has filed for Chapter 15 court protection in the US as part of a broader debt restructuring for the UK travel agent. The company’s Chapter 15 petition was filed in the Southern District of New York, court papers show. Law firm Latham & Watkins is representing the company, according to the documents. Chapter 15 of ...

Bloomberg Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Steve Dickson plans to visit Boeing Co facilities in Seattle this week to personally assess the status of the 737 Max, which was grounded after two fatal crashes. Dickson, a former executive and pilot at Delta Air Lines Inc. who is qualified to fly the 737, said he intends to perform test runs on ...