Aviation

Bloomberg Japan Airlines Co (JAL)’s domestic flights are being disrupted due to problems at its self check-in kiosks across the country, the company said. Passengers are checking in at staffed counters, which is taking time and causing boarding delays, the airline said in an emailed statement. The carrier had cancelled 18 flights as of 9 am local time, affecting about ...

Bloomberg IndiGo is in talks with Airbus SE for another large plane order in a sign Asia’s biggest budget carrier has no intention of letting up on a blistering pace of expansion. The Indian airline, which adds an aircraft to its fleet every week, is in discussions to buy a longer-range version of the European planemaker’s newest narrow-body jet, according ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is bidding for the German airline of tour operator Thomas Cook Group Plc and may expand the offer to include the group’s entire portfolio of aircraft. The deadline for non-binding offers for Condor, which is based near Frankfurt, expires Tuesday, CEO Carsten Spohr said at Lufthansa’s annual shareholder meeting in Bonn, in remarks confirmed by a ...

Bloomberg Faced with lawsuits over a plane crash half a world away, Boeing Co is arguing it shouldn’t have to defend itself in a courtroom a short walk from its corporate headquarters. The world’s largest planemaker has indicated in court filings that it’s likely to request that cases on behalf of victims in the October crash of a 737 Max ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co knew months before a deadly 737 Max crash that a cockpit alert wasn’t working the way the company had told buyers of the single-aisle jetliner. But the planemaker didn’t share its findings with airlines or the Federal Aviation Administration until after a Lion Air plane went down off the coast of Indonesia in October, according to a ...

Bloomberg An Aeroflot PJSC plane on a domestic Russian flight made a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 people. Flight SU1492 to Murmansk, a Sukhoi Superjet, suffered an engine fire after technical problems forced it to return to Moscow, Aeroflot said in a statement. The plane, with 73 passengers and five crew members aboard, made a hard ...

Bloomberg South African Airways will begin a direct service from Johannesburg to Guangzhou in September, looking to expand its business with China. The new route will have three flights a week and the schedule was expected to be published on Monday, the airline said. The carrier is aiming to attract business passengers, including corporate clients and traders, it said. “Adding ...

Bloomberg The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will evaluate a range of factors that could help explain how a Boeing 737-800 plane arriving from Cuba slipped into a river after skidding off a runway in Florida, from human error to the weather to the airport’s systems. “We are very early in the beginning phase of this investigation,” Bruce Landsberg, NTSB ...

Bloomberg Air France-KLM Group’s first-quarter loss more than doubled as fares fell and wages climbed following union deals struck by Chief Executive Officer Ben Smith after he took charge last year. The loss jumped to 303 million euros ($339 million) from 118 million euros a year earlier, with higher fuel costs and currency fluctuations also taking their toll. The loss ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co said it’s helping to investigate how a 737-800 plane arriving from Cuba slipped into a river after skidding off a runway near Jacksonville, Florida. The chartered flight operated by Miami Air International Inc was carrying 136 passengers and seven crew when it left the runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville on Friday evening, Boeing said in a ...