Aviation

Bloomberg Kenya Airways Plc is looking to renegotiate a 24-year long partnership with Air France-KLM to gain more control over their cost and revenue-sharing deal and the ability to make agreements with other airlines. The partly state-owned company has removed all staff that came from the European airline, including Chief Operations Officer Jan de Vegt, and replaced them with local ...

Bloomberg When American Airlines Group Inc exited bankruptcy in 2013, its new boss vowed to trounce rivals within a few years. These days, those competitors are delivering the beating. American is underperforming Delta Air Lines Inc and United Airlines Holdings Inc on profit margins and on-time arrivals. Investors are punishing American’s stock, sending the shares to the biggest decline this ...

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways is under investigation by Chinese regulators after emergency oxygen bottles on three flights were found depleted or completely empty, compounding pressure on the Hong Kong airline from mainland authorities. Cabin crew from the flights have been grounded so they can help with the probe, Cathay told staff in a memo. As well as the Civil Aviation ...

Bloomberg Hurricane Dorian upended Labor Day travel plans for hundreds of thousands of people in the Southeastern US, as fierce winds and torrential rains forced widespread cancellation of rail service and airline traffic. According to FlightAware, a flight-tracking website, airlines cancelled 1,152 flights on September 2. The hardest-hit airport was Fort Lauderdale International in Florida, which closed at noon on ...

Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc removed the Boeing Co 737 Max from its schedule for another month, joining carriers cancelling flights until December and beyond as they await US approval to fly the grounded jet. The extension means the cancellation of 140 daily flights through December 3, American said in a statement. The airline “remains confident that impending software updates ...

Bloomberg A strike by KLM ground staff on Monday was expected to disrupt flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest travel hubs. The airline said the two-hour strike starting at 8 am is “very likely” to cause disruption for carriers that are part of its SkyTeam alliance, including Air France, Transavia and Delta Air Lines. It advised travellers ...

Bloomberg Japan’s Narita International Airport, located about 40 miles outside of Tokyo, has always been something of a headache for travellers. A lack of off-hour transport options means passengers and staff on early and late flights can sometimes be left stranded. But that’s about to change, with train and bus operators set to expand their schedules in order to accommodate ...

Bloomberg Mexican airline Interjet is in “technical bankruptcy” and at risk of collapse, according to its finance chief, following an order to start paying off nearly $30 million in back taxes. Interjet beat back an attempt by authorities to seize control of its bank accounts in an effort to collect nearly 550 million pesos ($27 million) in unpaid taxes dating ...

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc is removing the 737 Max from its schedule until December 19, the carrier’s sixth adjustment since aviation regulators grounded the Boeing Co jet in March following two fatal crashes. Chicago-based United said the schedule change would affect about 9,500 planned flights through December, with the largest impacts expected in October and November. United flew 14 ...

Bloomberg Climate activists plan to fly toy drones near London’s Heathrow airport next month, as they seek to draw attention to a planned expansion and its impact on greenhouse gases. The group, Heathrow Pause, will fly the drones inside an exclusion zone surrounding Europe’s busiest airport starting from September 13, it said in a statement on its website. Drones are ...