Aviation

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 ...

Bloomberg Airlines operating in Hong Kong are urging the government to implement temporary policies to offset damage to their business as months of pro-democracy protests have disrupted operations and hurt visitor numbers. In a letter to the Secretary for Transport and Housing, the Board of Airline Representatives (BAR), which represents 70 carriers operating in Hong Kong, asked for short-term measures ...

Bloomberg With a crucial summit for the Boeing Co 737 Max looming this week, regulators are downplaying the threat of a rupture to a decades-old working relationship between US and European aviation authorities. On the eve of a gathering of about 50 airworthiness experts in Montreal, the top European regulator, Patrick Ky, suggested that the Max could return to the ...

Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Plc will incur additional delays in fixing problems with its Trent 1000 aircraft engine, hampering efforts to get grounded Boeing Co 787 Dreamliners back in the air. The challenge of replacing engine components with less-than-expected durability will delay the return of normal service until the second quarter of next year, the company said in a statement. Rolls-Royce shares ...

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 ...