Aviation

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 ...

Bloomberg Scandinavian Airlines operator SAS AB reached a deal with pilot unions to end a seven-day strike that left hundreds of thousands of customers in the lurch and may have wiped out profit for the Nordic carrier this year. SAS and the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish pilots agreed on a new three-year wage and labour deal after two days of ...

Bloomberg The top lender of ailing Jet Airways India said the burden of reversing the grounded carrier’s negative net worth before it can fly again is the biggest challenge for any potential investor. “Liabilities and losses are considerable,” Rajnish Kumar, chairman of State Bank of India, said. “All these past liabilities and then, profitably, can they fly in future? These ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabian budget airline Flynas LCC plans to open a hub in West Africa or the Balkans within five years to expand beyond its oversupplied domestic market, according to the airline’s chief executive officer. “Since we are a short-haul carrier, we seek to link those hubs with the current hubs in Saudi Arabia,” CEO Bander Al-Mohanna said in an ...