Aviation

  Bloomberg TUI AG said recent bookings for the upcoming summer are running ahead of pre-pandemic levels, the latest sign the travel sector is booming despite high inflation sapping consumer spending power. The world’s biggest tour operator said booking volumes since the start of the year exceeded 2019 levels, led by demand from travellers in the UK and Germany. Prices ...

Bloomberg Airlines have long charged customers more for on-board food, extra baggage and superior legroom. Deutsche Lufthansa AG now wants customers to pay for reducing the environmental impact of flying. Europe’s biggest airline will offer an option of so-called Green Fares to travellers from Wednesday, adding a surcharge to purchase sustainable aviation fuels and carbon offsets. The move marks the ...

Bloomberg Thailand will impose an entry fee on foreign holidaymakers from June as the tourism-reliant nation presses ahead with the long-delayed levy following a better-than-expected recovery in tourist arrivals. Travellers flying into Thailand will need to pay 300 baht ($8.9) for each trip and those entering the Southeast Asian nation through its land borders and sea ports will be levied ...

  Bloomberg Air India has signed agreements with Airbus SE and Boeing Co for what could become the largest purchase of jetliners in commercial aviation history, as the carrier seeks to reinvent itself with a fuel-efficient fleet that can take on local low-cost rivals. The airline has agreed on the outlines of the accord with the two planemakers and may ...

Bloomberg An American Airlines Group Inc flight crew taxied across a John F Kennedy International Airport runway without clearance on January 13 as a Delta Air Lines Inc plane was accelerating for takeoff, prompting it to make a high-speed stop, investigators said. In an unusual step, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it had issued a subpoena requiring the ...

  Bloomberg The top attorney at the US Department of Transportation (DOT) planned to visit Southwest Airlines Co’s headquarters as part of an investigation into the carrier’s December operations meltdown that affected more than 2 million people, according to government emails. DOT General Counsel John Putnam detailed a proposed agenda for the trip in an earlier email to members of ...

Bloomberg The US reopened airspace over Montana after temporarily ordering a closure to investigate a “radar anomaly,” hours after a third object was shot down in North America this month. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, a joint US-Canada military command responsible for aerospace and maritime warning, said it detected the anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate. The aircraft ...

  Bloomberg Heathrow Airport’s security, engineering and firefighting staff represented by the Unite Union will next week begin balloting for strikes, adding pressure to UK’s transport network which has been hit by a wave of industrial action. More than 3,000 members of UK’s Unite Union will start voting on February 17, with the ballot closing on March 17. These workers ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co is set to score a 15-strong order for 737 Max jets from Greater Bay Airlines Co., a person familiar with the matter said, a win for the US company over rival Airbus SE, which had also been vying to supply planes that will be the backbone of the Hong Kong carrier’s operations. Greater Bay Air has ...

  Bloomberg The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Corp. have reduced laundry list of deficiencies on the contractor’s F-35 with fighter jet, the world’s costliest weapons program, due for a key combat simulation by mid-year. The number of “open deficiency reports” now stands at 831, the Defense Department’s F-35 program office said, down from 845 in September 2021. Earlier last year ...